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I use Wine to run Photoshop CC 2018 on Ubuntu LTS and my life would be very different if that were not possible. For those curious, no I don’t use a licensed v

I use Wine to run Photoshop CC 2018 on Ubuntu LTS and my life would be very different if that were not possible. For those curious, no I don’t use a licensed version, but I would if that were possible. Maybe it is with Wine 7.0. I will give it a try. Both Photoshop CC 2018 and Illustrator CC 2019 run flawlessly with hires monitor support and all.

jmrm 5y ago
I dislike how Adobe forces you to have the latest version of their software, even if you don't care about not having their support, but I think some people could could sue them for not having that support and some other legal issues. I know this because I have to help a friend to update from Windows 7 to Windows 10 due to this. She know have a relative slower OS, a slower Photoshop version, and no benefit to the work she do.
- egypturnash 5y ago
  I have seven versions of Illustrator sitting on my computer. The last five work just fine if I try to run them (albiet with a bunch of "this is from an unknown developer" errors from OSX on the plugins for 2018). OSX says 2014 and 2015 "may be damaged or incomplete". There might be some deliberate breakage of very old versions, I dunno, but you can definitely keep on working with old versions for several years. Which is a good thing given that the .0 version of a new release has a 25% chance of being completely unusable due to either a killer bug or a feature change that breaks your workflow until enough people scream on the bug/feature request forum for them to add a fix/switch in the .1 version.
  - kradeelav 5y ago
    I think CS2-5 might be the golden era for adobe products that won't retroactively break. I know a purchased CS5 still works absolutely seamlessly on my 2010 osx, and I've ahem played around with CS2 in a different context experiencing the same. Rule of thumb I'd go for is pre-CC.

jmrm 5y ago

I dislike how Adobe forces you to have the latest version of their software, even if you don't care about not having their support, but I think some people could could sue them for not having that support and some other legal issues. I know this because I have to help a friend to update from Windows 7 to Windows 10 due to this. She know have a relative slower OS, a slower Photoshop version, and no benefit to the work she do.

egypturnash 5y ago
I have seven versions of Illustrator sitting on my computer. The last five work just fine if I try to run them (albiet with a bunch of "this is from an unknown developer" errors from OSX on the plugins for 2018). OSX says 2014 and 2015 "may be damaged or incomplete". There might be some deliberate breakage of very old versions, I dunno, but you can definitely keep on working with old versions for several years. Which is a good thing given that the .0 version of a new release has a 25% chance of being completely unusable due to either a killer bug or a feature change that breaks your workflow until enough people scream on the bug/feature request forum for them to add a fix/switch in the .1 version.
- kradeelav 5y ago
  I think CS2-5 might be the golden era for adobe products that won't retroactively break. I know a purchased CS5 still works absolutely seamlessly on my 2010 osx, and I've ahem played around with CS2 in a different context experiencing the same. Rule of thumb I'd go for is pre-CC.