too late, I'm FOSS-pilled now.
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Great news for bloatware enthusiasts ᐠ( ᐛ )ᐟ
More like great news for all of those people trapped on windows due to needing that software for work who can now make the switch
That means people need to have another excuse for not using GNU/Linux even though they complain 24/7/365 about Windows.
No, it means I can install Photoshop and InDesign for the couple times a year I need to edit a file in my line of work, and I no longer need to boot into Windows twice a year just to use them.
This is amazing news!
FWIW .psd support in GIMP is getting pretty good. Not sure what your use case is but it might be worth checking out if you haven't used it for a while.
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I am way too happy using GIMP now to make use of this.
Same, but Krita
I haven't gone too deep with Krita yet but I did try out some digital painting in it a few months ago and the brushes and brush dynamics were really nice to use.
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Until Adobe patch's the installer and licencing server to prevent it from working at all. (Too cynical?)
Who need licensing for Adobe products?
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I personally never want to touch anything Adobe ever again, but for my father’s and grandfather’s use cases, they still need it, so if it ends up working well, maybe it’ll finally allow them to use Linux.
'Allow them'? 🤣
With these companies you either take it by yourself or do without. They don't 'allow' shit.
Of course I don’t mean those art-stealing cannibals over at Adobe allowing them, I mean the Wine software allowing them, as it semantically implied.
Like I said, I wouldn’t touch Adobe with a 39.5 foot pole, but Photoshop is unfortunately necessary in those relatives’ industry, so getting on a high horse and telling them to use GIMP or Krita is not going to accomplish anything.
I’ve gotten used to GIMP and used it for a lot of cool thing (especially G’MIC for getting CD liner note scans looking quite good), but it’s just not a solution for serious professional use.
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This post only mentions that the installer works, but does the actual application work? Don't get me wrong, the installer working is still progress.
the application has worked for some time; it just required a windows copy or piracy to actually get the application files
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butter smooth
Butter smooth and adobe should never belong in the same sentence.
The real question is whether the Affinity installer works. Adobe can get lost.
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Can anyone recommend a native Linux app similar to Premiere Pro?
I've used random Linux based video editors in the past, like 15-17 years ago. They were... Not great.
Later, I did a handful of projects with premier pro CS6, really liked it.
It's been almost a decade since I've done any video editing, until literally a few hours ago when I needed to make a simple wedding video for my friend. Cut together a couple camera angles, some PiP, do some color correction, a couple fades and one linear swipe transition.
I'm running Bluefin, so I went the path of least resistance, and just checked the flatpack catalog for the highest rated and most downloaded video editor.
That was kdenlive. I found it to be fairly user friendly, and powerful enough for my needs. The GUI reminds me of CS6, though it's been awhile since I used it, so that may be less true than I'm remembering.
Hardware acceleration for encoding didn't work on my AMD 7840U, but... I didn't try very hard. Maybe there's a workaround, and it may not even be the programs fault.
Take my recommendation with a grain of salt, because again, this isn't my world, and I did zero research haha. Kind of funny that this post is the first one I stumble across after finishing that project.
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Who knows what bugs in other programs this fixed. This is great news!
I think the problem with Fusion360 under Wine is similar to this one - the software will work fine once you get in, but verifying your account for the launch (or install) just doesn't communicate with the website correctly. Here's hoping this passes muster and gets adopted into Wine for general public use, as I bet this will help a lot more than just Adobe products run under Wine.
I just googled "does Adobe run on Linux" yesterday and saw it doesn't..
This is great news but my cc already updated to 2026 and I am not in a position to pirate atm
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