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You could run Windows on dual boot just for lightroom. I use lightroom myself and I never do any development at the same time I use any Adobe products.
by kyriakos 10y ago
You could run Windows on dual boot just for lightroom. I use lightroom myself and I never do any development at the same time I use any Adobe products.
- lallysingh 10y agoOr a VM, right?
- maxxxxx 10y agoI wouldn't run Lightroom in a VM.
- globuous 10y agoActually, I remember my finite element analysis professor running on a MBP in a VM both Catia and ANSYS, which are hungry programs resource wise. And on top of that, he was running a bunch of browser tabs, PyCharms, and a few other things on OS X. And it was impressively responsive. I'm not saying Lightroom will run in a VM, I haven't used VMs for heavy programs, this was just an anecdote of me being surprised by how someone could use huge engineering programs inside a VM.
- maxxxxx 10y agoIts not about the processing but the graphics. I have tried Lightroom and Photoshop in a VM a while ago and the rendering was a little off and very slow.
- brazzledazzle 10y agoThe combination of GPU and what software you're using for VMs might matter too. Intel graphics are probably out. GPU virtualization is far from perfect but I've seen some surprising results.
- kyriakos 10y agoLightroom is very demanding both in processing and in GPU. Also you need proper screen color calibration to get accurate results. Personally whenever I use the clone/heal brush Lightroom slows down to almost unusable performance and this is on an i7 + 8GB RAM - I can't imagine running it in a VM. I am sure this is Adobe's fault though cause the same tools in Photoshop perform multiple times faster.
- pjmlp 10y agoI guess s/he means running GNU/Linux on VM. Which is what I do nowadays, my netbook is the only surviving desktop still having a native install of GNU/Linux.