Is there any way to get these going relatively painlessly?

I’ve tried working with GPU-passthrough into a Windows VM which doesn’t work all that well with my laptop setup (nvidia-AMD hybrid laptop).

Looking up other methods, seems like most of them rely on outdated versions of adobe software. I’d like to get something relatively new running

  • warmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    1 year ago

    I’m 40 y/o, I used Photoshop & Illustrator since I was 8 years old. When I moved to Linux I tried everything, and ended up using Photopea.com and Inkscape.

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Also… hello! My first post on Lemmy. Which is very cool all things considered. What Reddit should’ve been.

  • kia@lemmy.caEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    Are Linux friendly alternatives not an option? E.g. Gimp for Photoshop, Inkscape for Illustrator, etc.

    • warmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      GIMP’s UI is really hard for new users as it is very unintuitive and the learning curve is steeper. Inkscape on the other hand is awesome.

      • kia@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Fair enough. Gimp’s functionality is really impressive though.

      • tvcvt@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I agree completely with this. At my office, I’ve started installing Krita in place of photoshop for people who need to edit images. It has its own learning curve, but it’s been a wonderful alternative.

    • turdas@suppo.fiEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Gimp is just… not great. It’s ten years behind the times. These days I tend to use Krita, even though it’s more geared towards digital painting than general image editing.

  • kaffeebohne@feddit.deEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    You can the same way you can technically run MS Office on Linux. You can manage to get it to start and run but using it for any form of productive use is probably gonna be rough.

    • merthyr1831@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      Hmm. A couple years back someone shared some scripts for running the latest adobe/windows stuff but it didn’t stay maintained for long :/

  • socphoenix@midwest.socialEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    Honestly probably not I still haven’t been able to get Lightroom 5 to install due to adobe’s jank

  • jaykstah@waveform.socialEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I used this Photoshop CC installer a couple months ago for v21.2.4 and it got Photoshop installed & running but I personally experienced a lot of bugginess with the UI.

    Could be because I’m on Wayland, hadn’t tried it on X11 myself. Seems like it worked decently for some other users.

    Aside from that installer, though, modern Adobe products tend to be a huge pain to even get running. If Linux alternatives don’t cut it for your use case then you might just have to dualboot Windows for those apps to have them fully usable unfortunately.