It do be like that

I've never had any trouble running adobe software on Linux.
I've also never tried, but still the statement is technically correct.
- I'm laughing way too hard at this.
  Honestly this is the best answer.
  Like, use the tools that work for your use case?
  I fucking hate macs but man using a video editor on windows was a pain back in the day. Where I would rather set up a server on Linux, than use whatever the hell windows servers operate.

The answer is very much "Don't run Photoshop"
(Fuck Adobe. There, I said it)
- "It is always ethical to pirate adobe"
  
  It's never unethical to pirate Adobe, but it's always more ethical to use Free Software instead and deny Adobe the mindshare.
  
  I never understood that argument. Do or do not.
- Fuck Adobe
- Goto www.PhotoPea.com instead. :)
- Sadly there is no alternative that is even remotely as capable
  
  It depends on what you do
  
  Gimp has been just fine.
  
  Yeah, it’s kind of true. I’ve tried a bunch of Lightroom and Photoshop alternatives. Pixelmator and Photomator for iOS and macOS are my absolute favorites. I wish I could get around Affinity software better, but I can do 95% of what I need in Pixelmator. And I love some of the select tools. Bonus: Davinci Resolve is a big switch for Premiere users— but worth it, and even CapCut’s free features can help with the basics.
- Fuck I'd love an actual equivalent alternative on Windows too. GIMP, while great in the past, is nowhere near modern Photoshop, it's closer to modern Paint, which is just sad.
  There's a ton of people and businesses that hate Adobe, the lack of real alternatives is fascinating.
  
  Krita, rawtherapee, dark table, digikam, affinity. Just depends what you are trying to do. If you're used to photoshop there's nothing exactly the same and it will take effort to move but I think it's worth it, I'm still on the journey of learning as a hobbyist and have mostly been using dark table for photo editing

What? This is a normal headphone dongle for macs.
- Don't be ridiculous, mac users have neat and tidy usb hubs. iPhone users on the other hand...
- Good faith response here so pardon me if it's a swoosh moment. One of my devices is a fairly recent Mac. And it has a headphone jack. Which I appreciate greatly.
  
  But is it SCSI or 1/4" TRS?

I was taking to my sister, who is an artist, about setting up Linux and warned them about poor Adobe support. Their response was "⭐ 𝒻𝓊𝒸𝓀 𝒶𝒹𝑜𝒷𝑒 ⭐" due to their AI shenanigans and high costs.
So thanks modern Adobe for making it easier for people to switch to Linux.

Are you trying to use a guitar as an input device for PhotoShop?
- ???
  What else would you use?
  
  Reverse polarity positron emitter.
- angry F chord
  
  Everybody knows d minor is the saddest of all keys.
- Are you criticizing my MIDI art?

*Audiophile screeching in the distance as you enjoy perfectly fine 48k through this bad boy
- I was hoping I could plug it into my guitar & watch the sounds on an old computer monitor…
  
  Do you think it would work?

Say what you will, this is an efficient and elegant way to store your adapters. I’m envious.
- Until you need one and your OCD having ass can't break the chain so you buy a new one ...

There are Linux users trying to use Photoshop?
- As a challenge... for science 👀...

Just dropping this here https://forum.mattkc.com/viewtopic.php?t=336
- mattkc USES LINUX? based.
  
  he uses KDE too
- I love Matt's videos.
  
  He had a video describing how he completely switched to Linux and he showcased Photoshop in the video. It was immensely satisfying for me.
- of course he uses arch
  
  You can't do that shit any other way, you use either Arch or Void.
  
  He uses custom build Nobara

I just went through this last night....VMware workstation +windows 10 + passthrough.

I don’t use Adobe, I make money just fine without it.
- It's hard to make money from Adobe when they charge you £66 a month.
  
  Wait until you hear about rent.

Photoshop cs2 is ~~free to download~~ and probably works well on wine as its old as hell.
Edit: Correction. You used to o be able to download cs2 from adobe website. This is no longer the case.
GIMP has always been able to do what I needed more or less. Its got a learning curve and sometimes I still dont 100% how something works but for basic photo editing, meme making, and converting photos to different file types (why is .webp not universally supported yet?) Its pretty good.
When theres a problem doing something in GIMP it always felt like the issue was my own understanding of the toolset conbined with not-great documentation being given. I never felt like I encountered the limits of the program itself.
I'm sure if you are a professional graphics person who needs advanced tools theres things only PS can provide and its user interface is probably more friendly. But for me, the average joe schmo, GIMP gets the job done 95% of the time with little to no headache.
- Some people do overestimate how much of the software they’re actually using, and how far back some features go. I learned the little PS I know using a 7.0 license my father bought, I used it for years doing 2D graphics and web “design”, and still basically still have the same workflow with minor differences to avoid destructive changes.
  
  I've seen someone using Adobe Acrobat just for splitting PDF documents.

Not too hard with WinApps. I just use GIMP.

You can skip 3 of these adapters if you upgrade to the latest libraries, downgrade your microcode, turn off WiFi, and bench press a goat. It turns out it was the goat involved I'm the process, rather than the sacrifice, that made that stuff work.

Love the rs232 to scsi adapter that thing is dope.

What's so funny? This is how we played multiplayer Doom in 94.

Use Krita instead
- Krita is a different kind of tool used for drawing, but still really good. I don't even know the adobe way to do this lol.
  Gimp would be image post processing software like photoshop is. Also Inkscape is a vector graphics software like adobe illustrator.
  
  Oh you wanna do a pdf? Use Libreoffice and export as pdf. Krita is a open source alternative to photoshop as is gimp. Gimp has came a long way and is a functional replacement for photoshop these days without all the ugly AI stuff.
- Nah, I prefer my parallel port
  
  You mean that Centronics SCSI terminator?

"This is what me and the boys biologically did you your mom last night"
- You daisy chain your dicks in the others ass in descending order of size until the smallest one fucks her?
  
  One thrusts every second, the next one every two, then four, ...
  
  ~~Yes.~~
- Jesus Christ man

Or just use Photopea like a non-self abusive person
- try gimp first and if you spend 15 minutes raging, use photopea.
  
  Too late, in too deep with gimp never gonna leave 🥲
  
  That's why I said Photopea instead of GIMP
  
  I have the opposite problem
  I learned GIMP first
  When I try to use Photoshop/Photopea/whatever I'm useless at it because the keymaps are all different.

Add one more adapter to plug that 1/4" into a sound card, plug a printer into the other end, and then hire Abdul Alhazred to write a Cups driver.

back in the 90s piggybacking peripherals was a common way to upgrade your machine
- And today we complain about having 2 separate cables, type c and lightning
  
  Strange, I've never found a use for a lightning cable.
  
  Thinderbolt is gonna flop, same as Firewire, mark my words.
- hardware dongles were the worst. god forbid you wanted to run 3ds and lightwave on the same box, sentinel didn't like other dongles goddamnit
  
  Neither does HASP.

Gimp sucks.
And ps works with wine if you have it on windows already and drag over some system32 dlls
- Gimp used to suck. Gimp 3 is amazing. Krita is great. Inkscape is OK.
  Having all three requires less space than Photoshop and Illustrator and covers about every feature of both.
  
  Granted i havent tried gimp 3. Ill have to give it a try. But im so fast with ps. And i hate how each program needs to have their own control schemes to differentiate.
  I just dont get why people hate photoshop to the point of being unhelpful when people ask how to get it working. Especially when many people are pirating it anyways.
  
  Gimp 3 is amazing.
  Found the time traveler!
  (The stable version of Gimp is 2.10.38, and even the latest dev snapshot -- which is what I assume he means by "Gimp 3" -- is technically "only" 2.99.18.)
  
  The problem that arises is that you have to remember three different UIs and run them all simultaneously which I've measured use up more RAM, which sometimes reduces my efficency and increases my system resources more, instead of using the shit UI of Photoshop that the whole world decided to accept as the defacto standard to duplicate
- Gimp doesn't suck as an image editor, it just sucks as a Photoshop clone, which it was never meant to be. It's an amazing image editor.
- I've been using Gimp for simple things, and it's been OK once I realized that whatever I want to do, I should look it up first instead of just trying to figure it out through trial and error.
  
  It's life changing when you start to rtfm.
- It makes memes

Better than waiting for GIMP to load fonts, I'd wager.
- What do you mean? Doesn't it just use the fonts installed on the system?
  
  When I load it, I get the message, "Looking for data files" and below that "Fonts (this might take a while)". And it does take a while.

When I first used the Adobe suite it was on a Mac, I assumed it ran best on non-Windows machines. This was in 2005... Why would they have to make it so hard to use on Linux?
- It's a conspiracy, orchestrated by Big Adapter
- They just don't wanna port it to Linux... it's basically that simple.

Imagine your livelihood depending on adobe, how do you take yourself seriously?
- Pro retoucher here. Guess I'm just a silly goose them.
  
  I mean you're not a 'pro retoucher' if you require adobe to do your job, you're simply an adobe user.

I'm just about to windows myself back again but use Chris Titus mini windows version
Edit: I will really miss KDE though... Edit2: so far the Chris Titus mini windows is quite good for a windows. No junk except for the junking install. Edit3: someone needs to make KDE for windows. I don't know or care how but I need it.
- Or you could use LTSC 🤷.
  
  Is windows 11 ltsc a thing yet?

Photo pea use webapps if it feels comfy.

Or just run it in a Windows VM and save yourself a ton of grief? Win10 LTSC works just fine.
- Meeh, I dual boot.

My answer to things like this is "why would I want to do something like that?".

How do I run Paint Shop Pro 9 on Linux?
- https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=2505

Me running from DP to HDMI to DP DVI on a family members computer because I had those cables/adapter.

Well ain’t that just a string of memories.

Just use Krita or the Affinity line of software (works under WINE pretty much flawlessly).
- You've managed to get the affinity stuff working under wine? I can't get publisher to work correctly. I just wish they would make a native version. I'm happy to give them money for it even.
  
  I don't use Publisher, I used Affinity photo and it didn't give me any problems - I assumed it was the same for the rest of their stuff, but maybe I was mistaken.

just install gimp. much more straightforward and customizable. and it is foss

Ooooor, go to photopea. Dont need to download anything but just open a browser
- Yeah... I wouldn't use any web based tools if I was working on my own art, or anything commissioned for a customer, or anything copyrighted.
  Of course, I wouldn't use Adobe either after the whole AI thing.
- gimp!

Hah, we used to have some of those AUI to 10Base2 transducers back in the day in the office. Definitely had one on the IBM RS6000/220 box.

I want context
- You know that drawer with that pile of oldschool adapter shit from 25+ years ago laying around? Yeah...

I recall a native build of Photoshop 3 running on Irix. That was a long time ago though.

thats me with affinity (and you need a custom version of wine) 💀
- update: i did it and it actually worked yipee i accidentaly deleted the wine folder so i have to compile it again
  
  No, you just run winecfg 🤨.

photoshop trying to run on a gnu operating system*

Reminds me of a setup I had for local serial multiplayer on my Atari ST. I had cable going from the ST's 25 pin serial port to a 9-pin connector, a gender changer, a null modem module, then 9-pin back to 25-pin. But hey, it worked.

Dongle...
- Big dongle energy.

I love this, buy fuck off with that anti-Linux content on Lemmy.
We only have few places. :)
Edit: unless we're talking about servers and phones, in which case we have most of them
- It's already lost. Lemmy is mainly now just users that hate reddit (the company itself). It doesn't have the same far-left/progressive and tech loving atmosphere it did only a few months ago.
  edit: And yes, I do understand most of the population is moderate/centrist and not fans of free and open source software.
  
  Yeah, I've noticed that change as well. It was fun while it lasted.