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Re: How to use Photoshop in a VM on Ubuntu

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Post by shelf »

timdorr wrote: post #46

Is anyone running the opposite setup? That is, Windows as the primary OS and Linux in a VM. I'm looking to upgrade my laptop soon and don't want to pay Apple's high prices, so I'm looking at 1080p Windows laptops. I'm considering Windows as the base OS and a Linux VM for development stuff. I do web development, including design work, so I would need the ability to run Photoshop and other tools. But for running my rub…

Given that Mac OS straddles these two worlds perfectly well and you're a working professional, why not claim a mac as a tax deduction? (If your jurisdiction allows for that)

As for your question, the answer depends on whether you need the GPU acceleration in your adobe products. If so, you'll obviously want to run them on your host system. Support is getting pretty good but it is not there yet.

Parallels and VMware have both rolled out JIT translation of DX->opengl instructions with a windows guest, which is quite impressive. I doubt this improves your lot, though.

Re: How to use Photoshop in a VM on Ubuntu

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Post by cookiecaper »

timdorr wrote: post #46

Is anyone running the opposite setup? That is, Windows as the primary OS and Linux in a VM. I'm looking to upgrade my laptop soon and don't want to pay Apple's high prices, so I'm looking at 1080p Windows laptops. I'm considering Windows as the base OS and a Linux VM for development stuff. I do web development, including design work, so I would need the ability to run Photoshop and other tools. But for running my rub…

I have an associate who recently switched from a Linux host to a Windows host running Linux VMs. He spends almost all of his time in his Linux VMs doing dev work, but finds it very convenient to have the Windows host when he wants to play a game, run Photoshop, or do one of a handful other things that don't have good equivalents on Linux.

It's almost tempting to switch to a set up like that but I don't have the heart for it.

Re: How to use Photoshop in a VM on Ubuntu

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Post by cookiecaper »

shelf wrote: post #51
timdorr wrote: post #46

Is anyone running the opposite setup? That is, Windows as the primary OS and Linux in a VM. I'm looking to upgrade my laptop soon and don't want to pay Apple's high prices, so I'm looking at 1080p Windows laptops. I'm considering Windows as the base OS and a Linux VM for development stuff. I do web development, including design work, so I would need the ability to run Photoshop and other tools. But for running my rub…

Given that Mac OS straddles these two worlds perfectly well and you're a working professional, why not claim a mac as a tax deduction? (If your jurisdiction allows for that) As for your question, the answer depends on whether you need the GPU acceleration in your adobe products. If so, you'll obviously want to run them on your host system. Support is getting pretty good but it is not there yet. Parallels and VMware h…

Because Mac OS doesn't straddle the worlds perfectly well. It's definitely more compatible than Windows/Cygwin, but you still spend a lot of time trying to get things to work and/or compile correctly on OS X that would work effectively "out of the box" on a Linux machine. A recent hire has insisted on using a Mac OS workstation and his install time for new tech stacks is through the roof when compared to developers on Linux workstations.

Re: How to use Photoshop in a VM on Ubuntu

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Post by RegEx »

sethhochberg wrote: post #47
timdorr wrote: post #46

Is anyone running the opposite setup? That is, Windows as the primary OS and Linux in a VM. I'm looking to upgrade my laptop soon and don't want to pay Apple's high prices, so I'm looking at 1080p Windows laptops. I'm considering Windows as the base OS and a Linux VM for development stuff. I do web development, including design work, so I would need the ability to run Photoshop and other tools. But for running my rub…

I did exactly this for many months, but then realized that I was spending 90% of my time in the VM and it just made more sense to run the linux install native. My laptop is my development machine, so I usually have my desktop (Windows, since it doubles as a gaming rig) in reach if I need Windows for Photoshop or Visual Studio or something else briefly and don't feel like firing up a VM.

I don't see any advantage to running the install native. I've actually had more issues in native installs than through VMs.

As a side note, if anyone is interested in running an Ubuntu desktop VM, I highly recommend Lubuntu. It's extremely lightweight and fast, it's perfect for VMs.

Re: How to use Photoshop in a VM on Ubuntu

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Post by phaus »

solox3 wrote: post #13
pdubs wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I've met more than a couple of programmers who are otherwise so computer illiterate that you pretty much have to walk them over and sit them down in front of a text editor.

Most people around here seem to have somewhat decent system-admin skills, but there's also lots of students and even professionals who just haven't messed around with virtualization very much.

I'm pretty good at using VMWare to set up Linux systems in Windows, but I haven't tried the opposite yet. Sure, I could probably figure it out, but it's nice to have this guide to fall back on if something goes wrong.

Re: How to use Photoshop in a VM on Ubuntu

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Post by RegEx »

timdorr wrote: post #46

Is anyone running the opposite setup? That is, Windows as the primary OS and Linux in a VM. I'm looking to upgrade my laptop soon and don't want to pay Apple's high prices, so I'm looking at 1080p Windows laptops. I'm considering Windows as the base OS and a Linux VM for development stuff. I do web development, including design work, so I would need the ability to run Photoshop and other tools. But for running my rub…

I have a Windows host and Lubuntu guest. I love the setup. It's perfect for gaming and dev.

Re: How to use Photoshop in a VM on Ubuntu

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Post by phaus »

RegEx wrote: post #54
sethhochberg wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did exactly this for many months, but then realized that I was spending 90% of my time in the VM and it just made more sense to run the linux install native. My laptop is my development machine, so I usually have my desktop (Windows, since it doubles as a gaming rig) in reach if I need Windows for Photoshop or Visual Studio or something else briefly and don't feel like firing up a VM.

I don't see any advantage to running the install native. I've actually had more issues in native installs than through VMs. As a side note, if anyone is interested in running an Ubuntu desktop VM, I highly recommend Lubuntu. It's extremely lightweight and fast, it's perfect for VMs.

How do you configure your VM once you install it? I seem to have a lot of performance issues unless I get a pre-configured VMWare image. The only image I've ever gotten to run as fast as a native install is the Official Backtrack VMware .iso.

I've installed several distributions, including Lubuntu, along with the VMware tools, but I always get really poor performance when I try to set up my own VMs.

Re: How to use Photoshop in a VM on Ubuntu

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Post by georgemcbay »

timdorr wrote: post #46

Is anyone running the opposite setup? That is, Windows as the primary OS and Linux in a VM. I'm looking to upgrade my laptop soon and don't want to pay Apple's high prices, so I'm looking at 1080p Windows laptops. I'm considering Windows as the base OS and a Linux VM for development stuff. I do web development, including design work, so I would need the ability to run Photoshop and other tools. But for running my rub…

I've got multiple machines like this, they run Windows as the host OS but I spend a lot of time in VMs writing code under Linux (I don't do Rails dev, but lots of Go stuff mostly targeting embedded Linux platforms).

On systems with modern CPUs and plenty of RAM to spare the VMs feel basically the same as native to me, especially when running them in fullscreen modes.

Re: How to use Photoshop in a VM on Ubuntu

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Post by eaparnell »

cookiecaper wrote: post #53
shelf wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given that Mac OS straddles these two worlds perfectly well and you're a working professional, why not claim a mac as a tax deduction? (If your jurisdiction allows for that) As for your question, the answer depends on whether you need the GPU acceleration in your adobe products. If so, you'll obviously want to run them on your host system. Support is getting pretty good but it is not there yet. Parallels and VMware h…

Because Mac OS doesn't straddle the worlds perfectly well. It's definitely more compatible than Windows/Cygwin, but you still spend a lot of time trying to get things to work and/or compile correctly on OS X that would work effectively "out of the box" on a Linux machine. A recent hire has insisted on using a Mac OS workstation and his install time for new tech stacks is through the roof when compared to developers o…

Yes, that has been my experience. Most tech stacks I use install better under Linux. Even if I were using a Mac as the host OS, I will still run Linux as a VM.

Re: How to use Photoshop in a VM on Ubuntu

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Post by acqq »

gmq wrote: post #49
acqq wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you actually read the article? It seems he solved that too.

I'm talking about a native 'Click to open' function. The article only mentions sharing a folder to make it visible from the VM.

He implemented click to open too. He states that goal at the begining: "should be searchable and launchable from Ubuntu dash." If you read the rest you'll discover how he implemented that.
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