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Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by jungletek »

prepend wrote: post #91
wartron wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If anyone else has this issue that states: "the installer was damaged and may need to be downloaded again" I got around this by right clicking the installer and showing package contents > contents > MacOS and clicking on the install file found there Have you tried this? I have CC 2019 installed on Catalina.

I’m dealing with the workarounds and have it running. But what I find interesting is that photoshop is one of the biggest software packages and they are out OA sync with Apple.

This is Adobe we're talking about, their video editor can't handle multiple audio streams in standard video formats and codecs (think game capture footage with game audio and microphone on separate channels), in fucking 2019. It can tell there's multiple streams, but it doesn't detect the sizes of any of them past the first one, and won't let you use them as-is; you need to extract them from the video container and import them as audio files and manually sync them to the timeline.

And some people suggest I'm supposed to feel guilty for pirating their stuff. Hah.

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by vunie »

closeparen wrote: post #125
vunie wrote: post #90

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Adobe moved to a subscription model. They lose revenue as they lose customers.

If you need Photoshop, you'll stay on platforms where it's supported. If you don't, you'll probably not pay for it anyway.

> If you need Photoshop, you'll stay on platforms where it's supported.

Sure, but your customers will resent you for it and search for alternatives. Vendor lock-in is not a good long term strategy. Competition will eventually catch up.

> If you don't, you'll probably not pay for it anyway.

This is speculation on your part.

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by Semiapies »

e40 wrote: post #123
xbhdhdhd wrote: post #92

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Darktable

I looked at it. Seriously, not even close to LR.

Pretty much the case for Linux boosterism outside the command line. Almost every desktop app is a shoddy imitation of a commercial app, pushed by people who often don't know the real apps.

And if you point the shortcomings out, they whine that the shoddy app is only built by three guys and so it's unfair to judge it...

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by kick »

zozbot234 wrote: post #72
saurik wrote: post #65

I have long felt that if Adobe were to take their already-very-cross-platform (even afaik using a custom toolkit) tool suite and port it to Linux, they could own Linux: they should create an Adobe Linux distribution and bless a single toolkit and then I think you would suddenly see people actually feeling like they could both use it professionally and developers actually feeling like they could target it effectively…

> they should create an Adobe Linux distribution and bless a single toolkit and then I think you would suddenly see people actually feeling like they could both use it professionally and developers actually feeling like they could target it effectively without worry of fragmentation Corel tried this already with a Debian-derived distribution, like a proto-Ubuntu of sorts. It didn't work, so they abandoned that effort…

This worked so well for Corel or Caldera (I can't recall, they both did distributions around this time) that Microsoft paid them to stop. The successful one definitely didn't fail.

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by waste_monk »

jkrltifk wrote: post #71
saurik wrote: post #65

I have long felt that if Adobe were to take their already-very-cross-platform (even afaik using a custom toolkit) tool suite and port it to Linux, they could own Linux: they should create an Adobe Linux distribution and bless a single toolkit and then I think you would suddenly see people actually feeling like they could both use it professionally and developers actually feeling like they could target it effectively…

Adobe actually did extensive market study regarding a PS Linux port. The conclusion was that there is basically zero demand for a PAID Photoshop. People do want PS on Linux,but they want a FREE version (sudo apt-get install photoshop)

People will always say they want free Thing over paid Thing, and it doesn't matter what OS's you support - piracy will happen in any case. But if people are going to be using Photoshop anyway, having linux support would be good.

I think it would come down to convenience - even if it was still paid software, having it as an apt/yum/whatever repository and either having it prompt for licensing / seek out a FlexLM server / etc. on launch would be great for linux users. Even better if if you could just apt-get install adobe-cs (or whatever it's called now) as a metapackage and let it pull in photoshop et al. as individual subpackages that could be updated independently instead of massive multi-gig monolith packages.

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by sullyj3 »

zozbot234 wrote: post #72
saurik wrote: post #65

I have long felt that if Adobe were to take their already-very-cross-platform (even afaik using a custom toolkit) tool suite and port it to Linux, they could own Linux: they should create an Adobe Linux distribution and bless a single toolkit and then I think you would suddenly see people actually feeling like they could both use it professionally and developers actually feeling like they could target it effectively…

> they should create an Adobe Linux distribution and bless a single toolkit and then I think you would suddenly see people actually feeling like they could both use it professionally and developers actually feeling like they could target it effectively without worry of fragmentation Corel tried this already with a Debian-derived distribution, like a proto-Ubuntu of sorts. It didn't work, so they abandoned that effort…

They don't have the same market dominance.

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by cthalupa »

hellozee wrote: post #115
Semiapies wrote: post #113

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Probably because people keep posting articles like this one.

I never said Krita is a PS alternative, :P

Not in the article body, but titled an article 'Linux doesn't have Photoshop' and then talking about something that isn't attempting to be Photoshop is really clickbait-y.

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by 0x8BADF00D »

dang wrote: post #128
0x8BADF00D wrote: post #6

Linux is a mainframe emulator, it will never be a user-friendly OS. It has spinlocks.

Can you please stop trolling, or posting comments that are indistinguishable from trolling? Between this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21877139 , it's pretty bad. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I wasn’t trying to troll, I think those are legitimate comments. First one was questioning style and fashion norms, this one is questioning why spinlocks are necessary on a user developer friendly OS.
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