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.
People have very good reasons for not switching to Linux. Not everyone is a computer/software enthusiast. Most people dont want to deal with the different for the heck of it, especially when the current solution works well enough (which windows does no matter how much we like to shit on it for fair reasons.)
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!
if you are doing such light work, krita and inkscape might be right up your alley.
not that it matters anymore now that adobe stuff is supposed to work better.
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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.
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get that and other common specialty software like autocad and stuff to run reliably, and there would be even less of a barrier for people to switch. i wish valve sponsored more of this work beyond running games. i love that it does but most people's bread and butter must come here.
switch. i wish valve sponsored more of this work beyond running games
Why would they want to do that? If there's sufficient demand, companies like Adobe have enough billions in change to fund that effort.
I think linux PC vendors (Tuxedo, system76) have to fund stuff like this at the beginning, at least until we have not only a single digit percentage of market share running linux…
I mean profit oriented companies only invest in stuff they think they can yield something from later
yeah that's a problem. but we also need a lot of work on this side of wine.
they can certainly bring more people to their platform at a time computers are getting expensive to build, but integrators buying in bulk can wrestle better prices.
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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
Rude.
next time ask nicely
Okay well, lightroom Classic is the last thing I'm booting into Windows for. I've tried a few times to get into Darktable but the learning curve is steep and blah blah blah. Could you please expound on your earlier comment? If there's a trick for getting Adobe software to play nicely it could be life changing for me. Are you saying that the software installs fine with Wine/Proton, the issue is the installer/Creative Cloud? Thank you so much!!!
it's a bit of a pain, but this post here offers an in-depth explanation how to set up photoshop CC 2024, and should be adaptable to other adobe software and more recent versions.
alternatively, if you don't mind using a version that's a few years out of date (but well tested and supported), this script streamlines the whole setup process and has been successfully used to accommodate lightroom.
i hope this all helps. good luck!
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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 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
I used Krita for the first time the other day and it was a lot more slick than Gimp. Not a professional though, just got a hobbyist interest in graphic design.
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