Linux doesn't have Photoshop • Hacker News Board

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 12:52 PM UTC

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)

They could distribute it over Steam. Problem solved.

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by washadjeffmad » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 4:20 PM UTC

trynewideas wrote: post #93

washadjeffmad wrote: post #49

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Scribus, and I'm DocBook/LaTeX junkie. Might not work for everyone, but I put out a lot of long forms and policy stuff. I pipe through calibre for painless format shifting, as well.

They ever fix text selection in Scribus on Windows? EDIT: Just installed 1.5.5 and nope, they haven't. Still no triple-click line or paragraph selection. Still no double-click-and-drag to select multiple words. Still only Ctrl+double-click to select a whole paragraph. The same patterns to select text on every other piece of software on my computer don't work in this software designed to publish text. I have no idea h…

I guess I never noticed because I don't use Windows and wasn't weaned on Adobe products.

Have you tried starting a bounty, or better, a Linux VM?

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by thedaemon » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 7:29 PM UTC

hellozee wrote: post #103

imglorp wrote: post #39

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Isn't that what layers are for?

Take an example you scaled down and 1000x1000px image to 100x100px and then scaled it up back to 1000x1000px. In the process you lost a lot of info on the image. PS solves that by using Smart Objects, Krita by Transform Masks, GIMP? Nope

Obviously you should loose all of your details. You shouldn't be doing this at any rate.

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by dang » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 9:25 PM UTC

0x8BADF00D wrote: post #139

dang wrote: post #128

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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.

Ok, but such comments need to be more substantive. The burden is on the commenter to disambiguate them from trolling, since intention alone is insufficient.