Meanwhile I'm over here struggling to get lutris to load battlenet so I can legally play my D2R lol
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Maybe people will shut the fuck up about Photoshop not working on Linux now. (Not saying it's not a valid complaint, I just get tired of hearing it.)
People could use gimp, they do not need adobe crap to cut out background in photos.
But muh AI doing the cutting for me!
Idk what else doesn't work in Gimp, except for some 64-bit color or somesuch.
"Nooo you shouldn't have to update apps from terminal. AVERAGE USER is too scared. They will never be able to remember like three letters. AVERAGE USER is dumb you see. They want to be babied by their own computer. AVERAGE USER also doesn't know how to google for alternatives. It's just the typical AVERAGE USER.
Anyway, adobe photoshop..."
God I get so frustrated when people argue on the behalf of these mythical other people, but you seldom to never actually see anyone arguing this as something they'd like.
Like just say you'd like things to be easier for you to use, it's a valid statement.
Instead of hating on this, we should at least be happy about such a breakthrough. It's not only about being able to use that specific kind of software on Linux, but about making the transition as smooth as possible! If people were able to bring their workflow over to Linux and then gradually make the switch to free and open source software (which is what happens 99% of the times when a NORMAL and NON tech savvy user manages to switch to Linux) then it's fine.
This is a mean, not the goal. You gotta consider that many companies require it.
Exactly. Similarly for Office/Teams/SharePoint/(Enterprise) OneDrive. I need those apps to work or Linux is a non-starter. If people could install them and they "just worked", that removes a massive barrier to getting people to switch.
Thankfully, they work great in a VM, and the web versions of the apps are good enough for like 90% of my workflows. So I made the switch easily enough.... But I'm not recommending the switch to any of my (less techy) co-workers.
It's fun doing half a workflow in my Windows VM and the other half in Linux, snapping Windows to half the screen, or forcing Linux windows "always on top" over Windows. Copying and pasting back and forth between the two.
We're living in the future.
(FWIW: my Windows install is running ReviOS, so most of the bullshit's ripped out.)
Would like to see some confirmation, but this is probably the #1 thing I see people say is holding them back.
In hindsight, I'm so glad I couldn't get them working on linux, because it forced me to get my head around Darktable. I couldn't go back to Lightroom now...
Honestly I feel like that's very common with Linux. If you're willing to deal with the growing pain of switching it ends up working out better in the end, some people just don't want to deal with that or it's their job and they can't afford to deal with that. I'm sympathetic to the latter case, less to the former but that's just my opinion
I was one of the former. Photography isn't my job, but it's really important to me, and photo editing was a show stopper for me for a long time. Even after I moved to Linux full time, I was using remote desktops, VMs and whatever else I could manage to get Adobe stuff working, without having to switch back to Windows. I endured, because I'd finally hit a threshold where that pain was worth putting up with in preference to Windows and its built in ads and spyware.
But when I finally gave up on getting Lightroom working on linux, I figured I had no choice but to learn a linux compatible workflow... It was either that, or go back to windows, and that wasn't happening...
That was exaclty me like three years ago now. I stopped editing photos for like a year because I got so fed up with windows and did the switch cold turkey. No idea why it took me so long to just watch a few workflow videos on darktable but I use it constantly now I feel like I could do better but I'm comfortable
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Every day people, no. Mainly Youtubers.
Well... Youtubers (and other creatives) are the main awareness funnel for everyday people to hear about linux in the first place.
Creatives are typically stuck on windows because their workflow doesn't work on linux. And yes, they can change their workflow, but there's also a high time + effort cost to doing that which gets even higher for them since they still need to produce their works while switching.
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Lightroom for me, although it is more than just the installer that breaks it.
This would have been great like 10 years ago before Adobe fucked a decent product up with a subscription model and AI.
The good news is the old, non-subscription versions do work in Linux.
Honestly, unless you make a shitload of money off it, subscription Adobe products are just too rich for my blood.
I am a Krita user that works on Windows using whiskey or maybe cheap beer.
....just Photoshop? Why does this text seem to conflate the words Creative Cloud and Photoshop?
This should be applicable to "alternatively sourced" PS installs too then?
alternatively sourced
I think old versions pre-adobe cloud have been working pretty well for a long time, IIRC. It's really the latest versions that most companies force employees to use that are messed up.
But Adobe cloud is, like, 12 years old now IIRC so you'd have to be using a pretty old version.
no fucking way
It could take a while to get into Wine. The test suite is pretty extensive and automated but patches can break things as well as new tests may need to be developed to ensure that testing is accurate.
They have a test suite? I once had to downgrade Wine from 7 to 5 because the one game I wanted stopped working in the later version.
Yep it’s a huge test suite and an automatic run on every patch submitted. If people are writing patches they are also writing tests. The tests are run on various versions of Windows as well as wine running on Linux.
Yeah, there isnt even a merge request upstream yet and it seems like no tests have been added, which I'm sure will be required before merge.
They did release a binary of their fork, and you can always build it yourself as well.
Why is the headline so incredulous of the literal developer who authored the patches?
because journalism never existed in the first place
Their dumb installer is a web app incorrectly displayed under wine. If you install an Adobe program in a virtual machine then copy its files not every program works. Like Premiere doesn't work but Photoshop and Audition seems to work.
Can someone recommend an alternative with similar features to Premiere Pro?
Kdenlive may have all the features you need, I'm not familiar with Premiere Pro
I looked at it last night; the interface looks out of the 90’s. And the cross dissolve is weird.
But thanks!
Davinci Resolve maybe? They have a native Linux launcher and a free trial
.....but why?
I guess if you have a ton of adobe specific assets and must be able to use adobe software because of legacy projects this might be useful but it just feels like tech debt.
coupled with the fact that tons of accessible software now can open psd and ai filetypes... :| hooray, I guess?
but for fuck's sake people get off the creative cloud it's turning into ai smog
Affinity isn’t Linux compatible yet, and Gimp has a steep learning curve (the photoshop-ification plugin for new Gimp users isn’t well advertised)
And also as good as gimp is, it's not a drag and drop replacement for photoshop, it's a venn diagram that's decently overlapping, ootb anyway
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