Wine status report: Photoshop CS3

Although wine does not work as well in Mac OS X as of yet, some applications can be run in Crossover
http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/

One of the great things about OSX is that I don’t HAVE to run Windows applications – I can just run Photoshop as a native binary.

Guess which one is faster, your Wine implementation or my native Intel binary? Thought so.

“One of the advantages Ubuntu /Linux has over OS X is that it’s possible to run Windows applications.”

Have you not heard of Parallels and VMware? Both of these allow Windows applications to be run in OS X.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m an avid Linux user, but I think it’s important for the open source community to acknowledge what the other platforms are offering.

darwine…i love it!!As well as Linux

One of the advantages of OS X over Ubuntu/Linux is that there is a native version of Photoshop CS3, along with all the other design apps Adobe offers.

Oh, and can Linux run Final Cut Pro, iLife, Aperture, TextMate, Logic or ProTools? Uh, no, it can’t.

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Photoshop is awesome, don’t get me wrong, but GIMP is available and has pretty good imaging capabilities. Making bitmap graphics is kinda covered in Linux. Flash authoring is more important, in that there’s really no substitute in linux at the moment. Don’t say synfig. Making CS3 work will be great if the entire studio will work.

This is great. Now if they would only get AutoCAD and SketchUp working flawlessly, I could completely switch from Windows to Ubuntu!

Will you Mac fanboys stop it already? We all understand that being able to run applications natively is better. That is not the Linux communities problem; that is the software developer’s problem. This is an effort by the Linux community to improve interoperability, not become a Mac killer. Relax already.

As for the comment regarding time better spent making GIMP an Adobe-killer: Again, this team chooses to work on another product, not GIMP. Although this article may focus on making Photoshop work on Wine, as a whole, Wine is an implementation of Windows API on Linux so that eventually ALL Windows applications will work cross-platform.

People have locked onto the catch phrase “Wine isn’t an emulator.” Therefore, they think it won’t be slow. Sorry, you’re wrong. Every Windows program I have tried under Wine (of those that would even work) has been slow. If it doesn’t load slow, the interface is slow or there are countless delays where there shouldn’t be. I’m tired of the lies that Wine runs things faster. It most certainly does not in the real world.

I wish Steam ran through WINE, if you have the hookup on how to get it to work, let me know.

I should second the Lightoom, Please find a way to run LightRoom, It is a big stopper for me to complete migration to linux.

Thanks

I just want to be able to sync my Zune on Linux, and if that means being able to run Microsoft’s Zune software on Wine, I will do whatever works. BTW: It doesn’t work yet. ;-( I wish Microsoft would open up their specs for syncing the Zune to a Mac or Linux.

Oh, Apple fanboys are stupid. I own/run quite a few Macs, Windows, and Linux machines. They all have their advantages/disadvantages. But these statements like “will Linux run iLife” are stupid arguments because I could do the same with “will OSX run Zune Software/Hardware, Outlook, Paint.net, Other OSX unsupported device or software here” or any other stupid argument that has nothing to do with anything…

The article is about Wine running Photoshop CS3. That’s it. No fanboyism please.

Mac may be able to run Adobe Products… but Linux users didn’t have to pay an arm and a leg to run an over priced system AND we get most of the benefits OS X gives. Good for these guys who are managing to create a better experience for Linux users. Can’t wait to remove my dual boot of Windows and switch completely over to Ubuntu.

What is Ubuntu / Linux?

I tried getting Adobe Dreamweaver working w/ wine but no dice. I hear some people have got it to load and even though I followed their guide to a T, no luck :( I’m stuck in win32 land until then.

Sigh.

There is a big difference between Wine and the other methods to run Win apps.
Wine doesn’t require Windows!
You don’t need boot-camp (aka dual boot or triple boot.)
You don’t need to run a virtualizer like parallels, qemu, vmware, etc (these require a copy of Windows and have more overhead due to emulating parts of the hardware.)

So when Windows is gone, folks can run their Windows apps (especially if it was custom or no longer supported)
For example, Vista has no 16-bit support. But I can still play Castle of the Winds I & II with Wine!

Ultimately, if Wine can run Windows apps without the Windows… Why bother with it? The biggest reason I’ve heard for not switching (to anything else people. Whether it’s BSD, OS X, Linux, Amiga OS, etc.) is that Windows has the largest amount of 3rd party apps.
Now if these companies actually release native versions, it’d be a done deal.

Just to upset the fanboys/girls:

If you have Vista you have this
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

Here is a fun example with Hollywood using Linux to replace some OS X and Windows boxes.
http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1350000/1344214/9951.html?key1=1344214&key2=2488623021&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618

Linux can run on any platform. It is open to modification. It is not virus infested (do I need to say which OS is?). It has professional support if you want it, or you can roll your own. If the hardware works, and you’ve got the app. No reason not to, unless you have money to burn. :P There is a reason it’s in routers, super computers, phones, servers, desktops, etc.

I have visited this site on many an occasion now but this post is the 1st one that I have ever commented on.

Congratulations on such a fine article and site I have found it very helpful and informative – I only wish that there were more out there like this one.

I never leave empty handed, sometimes I may even be a little disappointed that I may not agree with a post or reply that has been made. But hey! that is life and if every one agreed on the same thing what a boring old world we would live in.

Keep up the good work and cheers.

Darwine is ok – it has glitches though. I definitely would not use it to run things. I use it for testing web sites in IE on OS X…but it’s buggy as hell. I can’t see it running video games. VMWare fusion is better for all that. I run OS X and Vista…on a PC, OS X on an external drive. I’m thinking about switching to linux full time…but I NEED to be able to run Photoshop CS3 and my other PC apps. I’ll have to check out wine.

buen programa

hey,. how about Cs3? how can i run it on linux?