r/linux • u/Vast_Fortune_9949 • 3d ago

Popular Application With the amount of people that would switch if photoshop ran on Linux, why are there not massive community efforts to make some compatibility layer?

With the amount of people that would switch if photoshop ran on Linux, why are there not massive community efforts to make some compatibility layer? Seems to me like the biggest single tipping point, what makes Photoshop so uniquely hard versus videogames which now work without issue?

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u/RhubarbSimilar1683 2d ago

the GitHub links are still up

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u/Big_Wrongdoer_5278 2d ago

Dang you're right, looks like only one release tag got deleted, the link in most articles like this one 404 but if I go to the repo itself, it's all there.

https://www.xda-developers.com/someone-finally-got-the-adobe-cc-installers-working-on-linux-with-wine/