And it hurt!Īpparently I wasn’t the only one. But it was there and it was free, and I thought that if I was going to embrace Linux, I better step up to the plate and live the life. Everything was in different places, things were done differently and the learning curve appeared to be quite steep with less than stellar results. Boy was that ever an exercise in futility for a long time Photoshop user. By “comes with” I mean that it is installed automatically when you install Ubuntu. This worked a little better but it just didn’t feel “right.”Īs an alternative, Ubuntu comes with a free (as in beer) image manipulation program called GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Then I found an article somewhere online (I wish I had a link) that recommended copying your installation directory and registry entries from Windows and forcing them into WINE. There were some errors on startup and it ran kind of sluggish. This would never do, I thought, there has to be a free (as in beer) alternative for LinuxĪt first I tried running Photoshop in WINE by simply installing it. When I went to screw around with some images the first thing I reached for was Photoshop and realized that I’ll have to boot into Windows just to do it and that would be the only reason I would boot into Windows, for the first time in over 3 weeks. We all know how bloated Adobe PDF can get, but when it comes to photo editing, Photoshop is the king. I’ll let you pick the flavor you will miss, any one of them(6, 7, CS, CS2 and CS3) is an extremely powerful image manipulation application, and the newer the better. I’ll talk about WinAmp later, for now, lets talk Photoshop.īy Photoshop I, of course, mean Adobe’s Photoshop. Some that come to mind include WinAmp and Photoshop. Recently I migrated my current home machine to Linux from Windows for a variety of reasons: Cost, Annoyance, Bugs, Virii and generally inexplicable sluggishness in Windows.Īs with most Windows to Linux converts I soon learned that there are certain applications that I seem to not be able to live without, and unfortunately there are not Linux versions of these same apps.
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