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You hear that Adobe? You now have a lot of potential costumers to sell your Creative Cloud package to. I bet those Chromebooks are selling like hot cakes and m

You hear that Adobe? You now have a lot of potential costumers to sell your Creative Cloud package to. I bet those Chromebooks are selling like hot cakes and many schools would love to offer training for your tools. As a side benefit, you'd get a lot of neglected Pro Apple costumers (well, one at least), which would love to use some blessed by Adobe Linux distro. Also… >…meaning that even less powerful machines should be able to handle a code editor without issues. Being able to run a code editor is a statement of a machine's power and system optimization? Welcome to the wonderful world of Electron apps. >…Wine emulator Wine is not an emulator, for crying out loud.

pier25 9y ago
I seriously doubt Adobe will release Linux apps, ever. They hardly can keep up with Mac and Windows...
- omeid2 9y ago
  The tide is shifting, I thought Microsoft would never endorser Linux, but here we are with at least two three version of Microsoft Linux.
  - pjmlp 9y ago
    Because they need devs on Azure and their IoT offerings. Adobe will do pretty fine with Windows and OS X customers.
  - jacksmith21006 9y ago
    Prefer this GNu/Linux implementation. Far more secure.
simonh 9y ago
>Wine is not an emulator, for crying out loud To those of us that used it back when Wine officially stood for Windows Emulator, people nowadays getting all upset on this point is an ever green source of amusement.
- calcifer 9y ago
  It never officially stood for that.The backronym was there even when the name WINE itself was very, very new [1]. [1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.linux.misc/_g3F2H4ieDc/1tN3XZODaYwJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.linux.misc/_g3F2H4ie...
  - simonh 9y ago
    Interesting linked post, thanks, but the project FAQ was headlined "The Wine (Windows Emulator) FAQ" even in 1998. Wine clearly is an emulator of the Windows APIs, it's just not a CPU emulator which was a much more common thing back then.
    - calcifer 9y ago
      > Wine clearly is an emulator of the Windows APIs No, WINE is a third party implementation of Windows APIs, that doesn't make it an emulator. Otherwise, Oracle JDK would be an "OpenJDK emulator".
pjmlp 9y ago
> Chromebooks are selling like hot cakes Not in Europe they aren't, here even as "Deal of day" they hardly get a buyer on consumer shops, always stuck alone in a dark corner of the shop, if they are there at all.
- zulln 9y ago
  But they are selling to schools, at least in Sweden.
  - pjmlp 9y ago
    And what is the ratio to regular laptops? I travel regularly around central and southern Europe. So far the only consumer shops I ever saw them on sale were the Media Markt, Saturn, FNAC chains. Usually they have like one or two devices on show, and quite often with some kind of discount deal. It reminds me of the Netbook Linux days, when such deals would be going for weeks until finally someone bought them.
    - zulln 9y ago
      Swedish article, but apparently Chromebooks is "38% of the market for schools" http://feber.se/pc/art/362288/chromebooks_slde_bst_i_svenska/ http://feber.se/pc/art/362288/chromebooks_slde_bst_i_svenska...
jacksmith21006 9y ago
Big for the schools in the US is CBs supporting AP CS 1 and 2 now out of the box.

pier25 9y ago

I seriously doubt Adobe will release Linux apps, ever. They hardly can keep up with Mac and Windows...

omeid2 9y ago
The tide is shifting, I thought Microsoft would never endorser Linux, but here we are with at least two three version of Microsoft Linux.
- pjmlp 9y ago
  Because they need devs on Azure and their IoT offerings. Adobe will do pretty fine with Windows and OS X customers.
- jacksmith21006 9y ago
  Prefer this GNu/Linux implementation. Far more secure.

simonh 9y ago

>Wine is not an emulator, for crying out loud To those of us that used it back when Wine officially stood for Windows Emulator, people nowadays getting all upset on this point is an ever green source of amusement.

calcifer 9y ago
It never officially stood for that.The backronym was there even when the name WINE itself was very, very new [1]. [1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.linux.misc/_g3F2H4ieDc/1tN3XZODaYwJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.linux.misc/_g3F2H4ie...
- simonh 9y ago
  Interesting linked post, thanks, but the project FAQ was headlined "The Wine (Windows Emulator) FAQ" even in 1998. Wine clearly is an emulator of the Windows APIs, it's just not a CPU emulator which was a much more common thing back then.
  - calcifer 9y ago
    > Wine clearly is an emulator of the Windows APIs No, WINE is a third party implementation of Windows APIs, that doesn't make it an emulator. Otherwise, Oracle JDK would be an "OpenJDK emulator".

pjmlp 9y ago

> Chromebooks are selling like hot cakes Not in Europe they aren't, here even as "Deal of day" they hardly get a buyer on consumer shops, always stuck alone in a dark corner of the shop, if they are there at all.

zulln 9y ago
But they are selling to schools, at least in Sweden.
- pjmlp 9y ago
  And what is the ratio to regular laptops? I travel regularly around central and southern Europe. So far the only consumer shops I ever saw them on sale were the Media Markt, Saturn, FNAC chains. Usually they have like one or two devices on show, and quite often with some kind of discount deal. It reminds me of the Netbook Linux days, when such deals would be going for weeks until finally someone bought them.
  - zulln 9y ago
    Swedish article, but apparently Chromebooks is "38% of the market for schools" http://feber.se/pc/art/362288/chromebooks_slde_bst_i_svenska/ http://feber.se/pc/art/362288/chromebooks_slde_bst_i_svenska...

jacksmith21006 9y ago

Big for the schools in the US is CBs supporting AP CS 1 and 2 now out of the box.