• Adobe products on Ubuntu Linux?
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Hello all, I am planning to replace my windows computer with Ubuntu Linux. But, I'm in need of Adobe products like Adobe Photoshop CS4, LightRoom 3, Premiere Pro CS4, Dreamweaver CS5,... for Linux. I searched the Adobe site but didn't find anything concrete. I am wondering if Adobe products run on Linux. If not, are there any alternatives I can use instead of the products listed above? Edit: After some digging I found out that Photoshop CS4 works but I found no information on other products.
Well one of the goals of the latest wine release (i think it was the latest) was having photoshop working perfectly, so I am pretty sure you can use WINE.
[QUOTE=redonkulous;23205897]Well one of the goals of the latest wine release (i think it was the latest) was having photoshop working perfectly, so I am pretty sure you can use WINE.[/QUOTE] What about Lightroom?
Couldn't you just dual boot/virtualbox windows? It'll be much more reliable considering adobe doesn't really support linux.
I don't know how much you know about Wine so I'll give you a description of what's going on. Adobe doesn't support linux in their products (excluding the plugins). This is true for many companies. Wine is a piece of software that allows you to run Windows applications under linux. It "emulates" the key things that are needed by an application to run on windows. This makes it faster than a virtual machine but it also makes it less reliable. Not all software will work perfectly under wine. Some will work just fine and others will only miss a few features. Some will miss key features or simply not work at all. The wine community has a database of a lot of software that has been tested with different versions of wine. They will tell you what works and what doesn't work. If something is broken they might also have fixes. You should look up all the products you want to use and see how they perform under wine. Note that you might have do either upgrade or downgrade wine for certain applications to work. It's not always the case. Do note one thing. Since these applications won't run natively they will be slower than if they were directly run on windows. The database is located here: [url]http://appdb.winehq.org/[/url]
[b]W[/b]INE [b]I[/b]s [b]N[/b]ot an [b]E[/b]mulator
IIRC Photoshop works perfectly but Lightroom has issues with Wine.
[QUOTE=Boris-B;23208453]I don't know how much you know about Wine so I'll give you a description of what's going on. Adobe doesn't support linux in their products (excluding the plugins). This is true for many companies. Wine is a piece of software that allows you to run Windows applications under linux. It "emulates" the key things that are needed by an application to run on windows. This makes it faster than a virtual machine but it also makes it less reliable. Not all software will work perfectly under wine. Some will work just fine and others will only miss a few features. Some will miss key features or simply not work at all. The wine community has a database of a lot of software that has been tested with different versions of wine. They will tell you what works and what doesn't work. If something is broken they might also have fixes. You should look up all the products you want to use and see how they perform under wine. Note that you might have do either upgrade or downgrade wine for certain applications to work. It's not always the case. Do note one thing. Since these applications won't run natively they will be slower than if they were directly run on windows. The database is located here: [url]http://appdb.winehq.org/[/url][/QUOTE] That clears things up a bit! Thanks. :)
WINE is not an emulator. It simply opens up Windows programs and says, 'We don't have this Windows feature, so use this Linux feature'. It simply redirects calls.
WINE is like a translator
[QUOTE=166291;23250713]WINE is not an emulator. It simply opens up Windows programs and says, 'We don't have this Windows feature, so use this Linux feature'. It simply redirects calls.[/QUOTE] Thanks for the clarification. I couldn't find a better word than emulates (notice the quotes)
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