How to use Photoshop in a VM on Ubuntu • Hacker News Board

Re: How to use Photoshop in a VM on Ubuntu

#11

Post by xtreme » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 5:10 PM UTC

This should rather be titled "How to make an application running in a vm look native on Ubuntu". The "seamless mode" was meant for just that.

Re: How to use Photoshop in a VM on Ubuntu

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Post by QuantumGuy » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 5:11 PM UTC

Care to do one for Arch Linux? I am currently learning Arch so I can make the switch and would really love it if you did an article on the subject. Thank you for your work by the way.

Re: How to use Photoshop in a VM on Ubuntu

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Post by solox3 » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 5:16 PM UTC

pdubs wrote: post #5

davidcollantes wrote: post #4

It is mainly "How to use VirtualBox on Ubuntu to run Windows, then install Photoshop and use it." I mean, come on!

It does provide detailed steps for a solution to a problem. I'm sure many people will appreciate that.

Many people... on Hacker News or eHow?

Re: How to use Photoshop in a VM on Ubuntu

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Post by mikegirouard » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 5:16 PM UTC

ykl wrote: post #10

mikegirouard wrote: post #7

This is a great guide. I've invested heavily in MacOS, so I'll probably need to figure out an alternate approach. One thing struck me as odd: Why make a `photoshop` alias if you're going to have the shell script in `$HOME/bin`?

Well, on OSX, there's a much easier approach: just.... run the native version of Photoshop.

Right... The same could be said for this article too, but you missed the point.

I'd like to run Photoshop on my linux workstation but I don't have Windows.

Re: How to use Photoshop in a VM on Ubuntu

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Post by Cieplak » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 5:18 PM UTC

QuantumGuy wrote: post #12

Care to do one for Arch Linux? I am currently learning Arch so I can make the switch and would really love it if you did an article on the subject. Thank you for your work by the way.

    sudo pacman -S virtualbox

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VirtualBox

Re: How to use Photoshop in a VM on Ubuntu

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Post by zheng » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 5:19 PM UTC

kaolinite wrote: post #2

Is Photoshop really 100% stable on Windows or OS X? Still, very nice guide.

I don't use it a ton, but it has literally never crashed in ~2 years of use on Win7x64

Re: How to use Photoshop in a VM on Ubuntu

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Post by thechut » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 5:20 PM UTC

davidcollantes wrote: post #4

It is mainly "How to use VirtualBox on Ubuntu to run Windows, then install Photoshop and use it." I mean, come on!

This taught me something as well, you could easily use this for other wine problem applications

Re: How to use Photoshop in a VM on Ubuntu

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Post by muellerwolfram » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 5:26 PM UTC

QuantumGuy wrote: post #12

Care to do one for Arch Linux? I am currently learning Arch so I can make the switch and would really love it if you did an article on the subject. Thank you for your work by the way.

the steps for arch would be almost identical. the desktop entry specification is a standard that is used by arch as well:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_Entries

how much it integrates depends on what desktop environment you are using. gnome and kde are using the same desktop files as far as I know. So it should work. Haven't tested it though.

You could also use unity with arch: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unity

Re: How to use Photoshop in a VM on Ubuntu

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Post by gmq » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 5:27 PM UTC

The main problem with using a VM is that you won't be able to open PSD files directly from your file browser. Having to switch to Photoshop and browse for the file would end up being a huge time sink in the long term.

Re: How to use Photoshop in a VM on Ubuntu

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Post by jpswade » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 5:31 PM UTC

Might as well just VirtualBox step and just install Windows instead of Ubuntu...