Ubuntu Linux & Adobe Photoshop

I have had my Dell studio 15 laptop for about a 1yr & 1/2 now & am really fed up with windows vista. All those little quirks, & just Microsoft as a company is kind of messed up. Anyways..I want to wipe the harddrive, (after backing up my data) & start over with Linux. (For those of you that don't know, Ubuntu Linux is an open source operating system, 10.04 being the newest.)

I want to use Linux, but I have one thing stopping me. Adobe Photoshop, which is not open-source. Yes, there is Gymp & Picasa, which are both open-source. Photoshop has many more capabilities + I already know it well. I don't really want to do a duel-boot, as in some cases that creates even more problems.

Thoughts on what I can do?

 

Photoshop may work under wine....wait for someone with a bit more linux experience to tell you about it though. I don't deal with it regularly.

 

Check out VirtualBox and reinstall windows as a guest Virtual Machine that runs natively in Linux. Pretty sweet stuff - lets you run in seamless mode which will maximize the guest OS window hiding Ubuntu behind it completely.. Then reinstall Photoshop on your Windows VM.

 

Thanks, raven. The silver list shows it will work for Photoshop cs4. I have Cs2. Will this still work?

 

With a program like Photoshop (huge resource hog), the losses from using virtualization are likely to be debilitating.

 

CS2 is also on that silver list lol

 

lol. Don't to try make a fool out of me. But i really do not see cs2 on the silver list.... -.- I must be blind.

 

Tell me about it.. I have a few development environments on VM's that I'm required to work with from time to time on a pretty wimpy host machine..Not fun..

The wine wiki states CS2 and CS4 work quite well where CS3 not so much..AdobePhotoshop - The Official Wine Wiki..

 

Thanks, Crank. I was confused on one thing. (this time, I can see everything. lol)

WineHQ - Adobe Photoshop CS2 (9.0)

"Updating Photoshop CS2 (trial version) works, but the newer version then has following error:.." The error is listed on the link. When it says "newer version" is this in reference to th regular version of photoshop cs2? Sorry for all the questions..I just don't want to do this if it won't work properly..

 

hmm, not sure about upgrading CS2 after installing the trial but there's a few good resources I just saw from a quick google search "Install CS2 Wine" that looked very promising, even with older versions of wine. It looks like it works fine and should be easy enough assuming you have a full version. Good Luck!