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There are two things that are keeping me attached to Windows - my PC not supporting Win11, and Photoshop. My god, if anyone can get a copy of Photoshop to work with Linux, I will say goodbye to Microsoft immediately.
(Yes, I've tried GIMP, Krita, et al. They didn't click for me. This is what 24 years of working with Photoshop does to a mf)
For work or personal use?
If its for work then consider having two machines, using windows for the work machine and Linux for the personal one.
This may not suit you, but for me and my skills, it's a perfect Photoshop clone. All in the browser! Blows the doors off Gimp anyway.
I think the affinity suite can run via wine, but that's the closest you're going to get you Photoshop on Linux.
There’s still some retraining needed to go from CS to Affinity Suite, but I did it around 5 years ago after 25 years on Adobe and would never go back. And now Affinity 3 is effectively free for basic use. Of course, this is probably the beginning of the end for it as Canva attempts not-a-subscription services on the Affinity platform (making it freemium), but I expect my Affinity 2 suite will still work for years to come.
My legitimate copy of Photoshop CS6 works flawlessly with wine. But if you run the latest version it's a different story
I am ashamed to say that I did use windows 11 for longer than I should have.
I mean I downloaded 4 to try out.
Good, keep going, people have become way too complacent about how much control their OS has over their lives, with a little bit of patience anyone can get on the Linux train these days.
