Microsoft isn’t terrified. The current CEO doesn’t give a shit about gaming. It’s foolish though — gaming is the “Trojan horse” that got people hooked on DoS/Windows. It’ll be someone else’s as Microsoft drops the ball.
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Alles rund um unser aller liebstes Digitalhobby, unabhängig von Plattform und Genre.
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Can confirm; I would have switched 20 years ago. Unfortunately I won't drop the games I otherwise love to play, and most of them either have kernel level AC (a whole can of worms on its own) or are just not playable on any distro.
If someone could finally find a way to run Adobe software on Linux please
If enough people switch to Linux, Adobe themselves will find a way
But what do I do until then
I guess use linux with alternatives and if you need it for work or sth. dual boot.
Wait gibt es einen Grund, dass alle auf der !zocken@feddit.org community englisch sprechen?
Hatte nicht gesehen in welcher Community ich bin und der Artikel war auf Englisch ;)
Die Alternativen sind leider nicht mal ansatzweise gleichwertig. Ich nutze sehr viel Lightroom und möchte darauf nicht verzichten. Darktable kann auch viel, ist aber insbesondere im Hinblick auf Usability einfach deutlich schlechter. Und hab keine Lust immer mit Dual Boot zu hantieren, das ist einfach zu nervig.
Würde zumindest den Umfang an tracking einschränken. Es gibt auf Linux auch VFIO passthrough aber das ist schwierig für solche Zwecke einzurichten. Wenn man keine alternative auf Linux zu nem Workstation windows Programm gibt ist man teilweise richtig aufgeflogen.
Die of old age because people ain't switching to Linux
I got Illustrator 2022 and Photoshop 2020 to run on wine. Only the "patched" versions, though.
Do you have a guide for that? Just some pirated copy with wine? Or is there something more difficult involved?
I used the m0nkrus versions, installed them on Windows (because his installer doesn't work in wine) and copied these folders into my wineprefix:
C:\Program Files\Adobe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe
C:\Program Files(x86)\Adobe
C:\Program Files(x86)\Common Files\Adobe
C:\ProgramData\Adobe
C:\Users\(your username)\AppData\Local\Adobe
C:\Users\(your username)\AppData\Roaming\Adobe
Then I used winetricks to install these dependencies:
winetricks vcrun2022 vkd3d dxvk atmlib corefonts gdiplus allfonts fontsmooth=rgb
If it crashes often, disable GPU acceleration in the settings. Photoshop just works, but Illustrator needs a patch applied to wine, otherwise the GUI has major graphical errors and you also need to add a DLL override for msxml3.dll and set it to "native, builtin".
Illustrator also needs these files copied and renamed in its own directory:
icuin73.dll => icuin.dll
icuuc73.dll => icuuc.dll
According to this result, Photoshop CC 2023 seems to run now, too.
Thank you :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm51xZHZI6g
Not what you asked for but this might be interesting!
Sorry but I can't watch that video for more than a few seconds, what a horrible way to try and get a point across.
There is no good alternative to Lightroom for me so I'll stick with it for now. May well be different for video software.
Thanks. I use GIMP a lot for small things but without proper non-destructive editing it will never be a serious alternative to Photoshop, unfortunately. Also I rarely use Photoshop, mostly Lightroom.
Gimp 3.0 has non destructive editing, and is in release candidate state.
Eh. Home users often don't even pay for their licenses.
Selling windows licenses to other businesses has always been how windows made most of its money. I don't even want to think of how much work it would be to get hexagenarian office workers to switch to Ubuntu (or any other flavor of linux, frankly). That's not a dig on Linux, it's just that trying to switch to any other operating system would be so painful that MS could ask basically any price and companies would pay it.
The gaming/home user space may well continue to slide toward Linux, and I hope it does. But making inroads to the corporate desktop is the real challenge.