The inability to use Adobe Creative Cloud on Linux is often cited as a major barrier for many users considering a switch to the platform. But perhaps, just perhaps, there has already been a breakthrough in that direction.
A community developer says they have resolved long-standing Wine compatibility issues that prevented Adobe Creative Cloud installers from completing on Linux, publishing a patchset and prebuilt binaries that they claim enable installation of Photoshop 2021 and Photoshop 2025.
Exactly. Similarly for Office/Teams/SharePoint/(Enterprise) OneDrive. I need those apps to work or Linux is a non-starter. If people could install them and they “just worked”, that removes a massive barrier to getting people to switch.
Thankfully, they work great in a VM, and the web versions of the apps are good enough for like 90% of my workflows. So I made the switch easily enough… But I’m not recommending the switch to any of my (less techy) co-workers.
It’s fun doing half a workflow in my Windows VM and the other half in Linux, snapping Windows to half the screen, or forcing Linux windows “always on top” over Windows. Copying and pasting back and forth between the two.
We’re living in the future.
(FWIW: my Windows install is running ReviOS, so most of the bullshit’s ripped out.)