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[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

There's really only two programs that make moving to Linux very problematic for me, that's Photoshop, and Word.

At least with word I can ultimately just sequester that into a VM, or learn a different document program if push comes to shove (RIP all my workflows for citations and templates).

But PS is pretty much non-negotiable, it needs GPU acceleration of a native environment to run well, and there just aren't any alternatives that can do what PS does — I need real channel support (painting on channels, copying between them per layer, actual alpha support instead of naive transparency) and more. As much as I hate Adobe, PS is one of those tools that I just know intuitively, all the texture or photo manipulation work feels entirely natural, and I just don't think I'm going to find that ever again.

So, if Linux people can get it working through Wine, it's a huge relief that I can finally leave the Microslop ecosystem.

[–] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

Word is a terrible requirement. Look into onlyoffice, libreoffice or tex.

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

Why are you demanding word

[–] civilfolly@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

When’s the next story about Adobe sending a cease and desist letter for using their software in an unapproved manner. 3… 2… 1……

[–] kaitco@lemmy.world 29 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

PR, so you’d have to build Wine manually to make this patch work, but still incredible progress.

My hope is that within the next year or so, we’ll get some of these major Windows/Mac only apps running without having to run through virtualization.

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 hours ago

Maybe the patch will get merged in.

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

Awesome progress, can't wait until Illustrator, InDesign and Photosop can all run well on Linux ✨ Adobe's lack of support is like 70% the reason why I haven't switched to Linux yet.

[–] melfie@lemy.lol 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] andyburke@fedia.io 6 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Ableton kinda runs under Bottles. 🤷‍♂️

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Reaper is native Linux support too. I'm very very much a novice in audio production, but using yabridge you can import most plugin models as well. I don't know that getting something like neural DSP is possible, at least stable though.

[–] Thassodar@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

Can you define kinda? Or do you have an article you can point me to?

[–] melfie@lemy.lol 5 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, as does Reaper, though I really want a modern version of Cubase to work.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

As an alternative to Adobe, the Affinity suite also works well with Wine. And we can hope for a native version.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I’ve no hopes of Affinity 1 or 2 coming to Linux.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I know, that was the best Affinity. But at least, Affinity 3 is free (for now).

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 2 points 1 hour ago

I wrote off the product when they got bought by Canva. Unless it's open source or libre, it's never going to be free. There's always a cost. Likely it'll be the usual pipeline of enshittification.

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

That’s impressive. I have no use for it, but I know many who might.