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This is what I've been waiting for. As a developer, I love developing on Linux, I just flow better with it, servers are Linux as well etc... But I do a lot of

by npolet 9y ago

This is what I've been waiting for. As a developer, I love developing on Linux, I just flow better with it, servers are Linux as well etc... But I do a lot of design work and this is where I miss all the Adobe apps. I've found a good workflow with inkscape and it serves me well. Using a Windows VM with the Adobe cc suite is fine, but it's not as clean as having it (somewhat) natively available. Great work Wine team.

usaphp 9y ago
Have you tried figma.com? It’s web based and in many ways even better than Sketch app. I personally stopped using photoshop for graphic design long time ago and never look back
- cercatrova 9y ago
  Figma is great, they have very interesting ways of solving problems, through rethinking from first principles of what makes a feature interesting or useful for the end user.
- thinkloop 9y ago
  This looks fantastic, they are properly innovating and not just trying to be a web version of sketch. I just looked into how paths work (pen tool), and it is finally exactly how I originally envisioned they would work when I was first introduced to them decades ago. I never fully understood why the pen tool had a surprisingly high learning curve and general awkwardness. I assumed it was to meet some specific high-end needs of pro designers (I am an engineer first). Figma seems to be showing otherwise.
- emmelaich 9y ago
  How about https://canva.com/ https://canva.com/ too. Seems very polished to me -- but I'm not a web developer or graphic artist.
  - deleted 9y ago
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- Rotareti 9y ago
  Does anyone know if there is an open source alternative to Sketch/Figma?
  - Benjamin_Dobell 9y ago
    As mentioned above, I believe the closest is Inkscape.
  - minkiu 9y ago
    Not open-source afaik, bit closest one with Linux support that I found: Gravit Designer - https://designer.io/ https://designer.io/ If you want to design UIs (several pages, a single page is fine) Inkscape will prove painful.
cookiecaper 9y ago
I ran Linux natively as my sole workstation OS for nearly 10 years, and spent a lot of that time tinkering with WINE, including developing and submitting some patches, but eventually I had to give up because advanced things like Photoshop were too spotty in Wine and too slow in VMs. My solution was ultimately to set up an Arch-based KVM hypervisor with a Windows 10 VM running as the main "workstation", with USB + GPU PCI passthrough and paravirt. The hypervisor also runs Linux VMs, from which I do development work via VNC and/or SSH. This is the most convenient workflow situation for me, and allows the best of both worlds. It essentially makes Windows act like a desktop environment for a Linux box while maintaining practically-native overall performance for all workloads, including gaming and photo/video editing. It also grants the admin convenience of virtualized environments, since I can use zvols to snapshot everything at once, place clean resource limitations on each environment, etc. It would only not work for Linux-based graphics development, but even then, you can get a second GPU and pass it through to another VM, running on a separate display. Before I got the hypervisor set up, I ran Windows on the hardware with Linux VMs hosted in VirtualBox. The biggest issue with this (aside from the general shame and guilt of using Windows on the hardware) was that Windows would decide it wanted to turn off for MS-enforced updates and bring everything down. Now, Windows is separate and it can crash, reboot, or hurt itself all it wants, and rarely causes any real loss.
- modzu 9y ago
  curious about this setup. screenshots?
- eslaught 9y ago
  Are there instructions anywhere on how to get started with something like this?
  - merb 9y ago
    Basically you need relativly new hardware. IOMMU is a must. (for intel) Here is a guide from some other user: https://github.com/saveriomiroddi/vga-passthrough https://github.com/saveriomiroddi/vga-passthrough was really helpful but I needed to give up since my mainboard was too stupid and my graphic card didn't worked as I wanted. I could install the OS but it bootlooped after installing any driver. I used an asus b350-m mainboard with a AMD Ryzen 5 1500x + a radeon r9 280 (thaiti based basically the same as an hd7970) and it didn't worked since my mainboard only had one pci express 16x which meant that the "better" card needed to be used for the main os. You can use the first slot card for the os but it might not always work (hardly hardware dependant). Having a good mainboard is way more important for it to work.
bitcoinofficial 9y ago
Have you tried Photopea [1]? It seems to be a great open source tool that could be an alternative to Adobe Photoshop. [1] https://www.photopea.com/ https://www.photopea.com/
- dovyski 9y ago
  Photopea is not open source [1], it is a free SaaS. Photopea's Github repository [2] is only for bug tracking apparently. [1] https://github.com/photopea/photopea/issues/45#issuecomment-227601143 https://github.com/photopea/photopea/issues/45#issuecomment-... [2] https://github.com/photopea/photopea https://github.com/photopea/photopea
  - bitcoinofficial 9y ago
    Yeah, my fault. Sorry for that :C

by npolet 9y ago

usaphp 9y ago

Have you tried figma.com? It’s web based and in many ways even better than Sketch app. I personally stopped using photoshop for graphic design long time ago and never look back

cercatrova 9y ago
Figma is great, they have very interesting ways of solving problems, through rethinking from first principles of what makes a feature interesting or useful for the end user.
thinkloop 9y ago
This looks fantastic, they are properly innovating and not just trying to be a web version of sketch. I just looked into how paths work (pen tool), and it is finally exactly how I originally envisioned they would work when I was first introduced to them decades ago. I never fully understood why the pen tool had a surprisingly high learning curve and general awkwardness. I assumed it was to meet some specific high-end needs of pro designers (I am an engineer first). Figma seems to be showing otherwise.
emmelaich 9y ago
How about https://canva.com/ https://canva.com/ too. Seems very polished to me -- but I'm not a web developer or graphic artist.
- deleted 9y ago
  [deleted]
Rotareti 9y ago
Does anyone know if there is an open source alternative to Sketch/Figma?
- Benjamin_Dobell 9y ago
  As mentioned above, I believe the closest is Inkscape.
- minkiu 9y ago
  Not open-source afaik, bit closest one with Linux support that I found: Gravit Designer - https://designer.io/ https://designer.io/ If you want to design UIs (several pages, a single page is fine) Inkscape will prove painful.

cookiecaper 9y ago

I ran Linux natively as my sole workstation OS for nearly 10 years, and spent a lot of that time tinkering with WINE, including developing and submitting some patches, but eventually I had to give up because advanced things like Photoshop were too spotty in Wine and too slow in VMs. My solution was ultimately to set up an Arch-based KVM hypervisor with a Windows 10 VM running as the main "workstation", with USB + GPU PCI passthrough and paravirt. The hypervisor also runs Linux VMs, from which I do development work via VNC and/or SSH. This is the most convenient workflow situation for me, and allows the best of both worlds. It essentially makes Windows act like a desktop environment for a Linux box while maintaining practically-native overall performance for all workloads, including gaming and photo/video editing. It also grants the admin convenience of virtualized environments, since I can use zvols to snapshot everything at once, place clean resource limitations on each environment, etc. It would only not work for Linux-based graphics development, but even then, you can get a second GPU and pass it through to another VM, running on a separate display. Before I got the hypervisor set up, I ran Windows on the hardware with Linux VMs hosted in VirtualBox. The biggest issue with this (aside from the general shame and guilt of using Windows on the hardware) was that Windows would decide it wanted to turn off for MS-enforced updates and bring everything down. Now, Windows is separate and it can crash, reboot, or hurt itself all it wants, and rarely causes any real loss.

modzu 9y ago
curious about this setup. screenshots?
eslaught 9y ago
Are there instructions anywhere on how to get started with something like this?
- merb 9y ago
  Basically you need relativly new hardware. IOMMU is a must. (for intel) Here is a guide from some other user: https://github.com/saveriomiroddi/vga-passthrough https://github.com/saveriomiroddi/vga-passthrough was really helpful but I needed to give up since my mainboard was too stupid and my graphic card didn't worked as I wanted. I could install the OS but it bootlooped after installing any driver. I used an asus b350-m mainboard with a AMD Ryzen 5 1500x + a radeon r9 280 (thaiti based basically the same as an hd7970) and it didn't worked since my mainboard only had one pci express 16x which meant that the "better" card needed to be used for the main os. You can use the first slot card for the os but it might not always work (hardly hardware dependant). Having a good mainboard is way more important for it to work.

bitcoinofficial 9y ago

Have you tried Photopea [1]? It seems to be a great open source tool that could be an alternative to Adobe Photoshop. [1] https://www.photopea.com/ https://www.photopea.com/

dovyski 9y ago
Photopea is not open source [1], it is a free SaaS. Photopea's Github repository [2] is only for bug tracking apparently. [1] https://github.com/photopea/photopea/issues/45#issuecomment-227601143 https://github.com/photopea/photopea/issues/45#issuecomment-... [2] https://github.com/photopea/photopea https://github.com/photopea/photopea
- bitcoinofficial 9y ago
  Yeah, my fault. Sorry for that :C