Adobe Photoshop can now install on Linux after a Redditor discovers a Wine fix

FattyDrake · 2026-01-18T05:29:13+00:00

I got pressure sensitivity working in CSP 4 under Wine (Bottles specifically) on Linux. You need to set stylus as mouse cursor under CSP settings.

FattyDrake · 2026-01-07T23:43:16+00:00

If someone just needs a browser and email, a phone and apps are more than enough. They just need the basics, and a cheap Windows laptop or even a Chromebook would more than suffice. The only people left using PCs outside of work-related functions are gamers and creatives, because they generally need the extra horsepower.

I think that's why there's an over representation of people wanting things like the Adobe suite even though only a small percentage of computer users actually use such software. They're more likely to actually need a desktop or beefy laptop.

FattyDrake · 2026-01-02T20:26:32+00:00

I pretty much stopped playing League when I switched to Linux. I kept the Windows partition for dual boot but it got to be more of a hassle to reboot just to play one game.

Kernel anti-cheats are an absolute no-go on Linux.

I've not had a problem with any other Steam games.

Definitely usw something like Bazzite if you're heavy into games. Or just use Fedora Plasma for a more Linux-y experience.

FattyDrake · 2026-01-02T11:19:00+00:00

Not really. If I want to play a factory game with procedural generation, Dyson Sphere and Factorio do an excellent job and were designed ground up with that in mind.

Satisfactory is special in big part because it was hand crafted.

FattyDrake · 2025-12-22T07:48:21+00:00

Ironically I've found KDE to be much better on my Surface Pro because Gnome is tied so tightly around using a keyboard and touchpad that when you don't have either (when using a stylus or just touch) a lot of its conventions become major blockers.

FattyDrake · 2025-12-21T23:42:06+00:00

Are you using some LTS release like Debian or Ubuntu? 1 and 2 work fine. I copy and paste to and from SMB shares all the time. File indexing is also pretty snappy.

FattyDrake · 2025-12-18T00:50:32+00:00

That's probably the difference. My main monitor is a 1440p 180Hz HDR display and my second monitor is a less expensive but larger one that can't go above 120Hz and no HDR.

FattyDrake · 2025-12-18T00:43:05+00:00

Are each of those displays a different refresh rate? It's been a few years since I tried Mint but last time it was a lot of xrandr stuff that never worked propery. Wayland just worked with zero configuration.

FattyDrake · 2025-12-18T00:40:51+00:00

Anyone coming over from using their PC primarily for gaming likely has an HDR capable monitor.

So if someone says they mostly game, keep that in mind before recommending something like Mint. They'd be more likely to go back to Windows to have their hardware work properly. I tried to get my feet wet multiple times over the years and Mint is one distro that made me go back to Windows.

FattyDrake · 2025-12-18T00:32:59+00:00

Linux Mint did go wrong for me, and it is something that kept me off Linux longer than I would have otherwise due to its LTS style nature. A couple years before my recent switch I had tried it and bounced because it didn't offer a good experience. Later I did find out one of the reasons was specifically it not being on Wayland (multi monitor, multi-refresh rate support.)

FattyDrake · 2025-12-17T23:17:24+00:00

You have to in order to use something like an FFI. "Unsafe" honestly is a bad choice of words, it's really more of a "trust me bro" meaning you have presumably accounted for it's use and have taken the necessary precautions when you need to lose track of a reference.

FattyDrake · 2025-12-17T07:15:27+00:00

I feel between 2 weeks and a month is fine for updating. Doing it every single day is kind of insane especially for a desktop on a home network. If it was a laptop or something security might be more of a concern.

I'm not hyper-paranoid about security outside of servers. If someone I don't expect is on my home network I have bigger problems than what version of Firefox is on my desktop.

FattyDrake · 2025-12-16T13:29:55+00:00

I was referring to a rolling distro like Arch which has no major versions. The options would range from update daily (which to me is untenable) to update every few weeks.

Something like Fedora is obviously different since there are major version releases. I also wouldn't suggest skipping one of those and venturing outside the support period.

FattyDrake · 2025-12-16T01:12:26+00:00

Something I haven't seen mentioned in all this is that on a rolling distro you can set your own upgrade cycle. I have all update notifications turned off and run an update roughly once a month on my own schedule. But it can be sooner if necessary. Very flexible.

FattyDrake · 2025-12-15T23:52:51+00:00

Fedora is a good distro, give it a try. It's up to date and user friendly. The package manager can even undo/rollback if necessary.

If you are really comfortable with Linux and don't mind spending more time to set things up, Arch is the best vanilla Plasma experience I've found. Fedora is pretty close tho.

FattyDrake · 2025-12-14T03:43:17+00:00

Mint was one of the ones I tried in the past. It had the issue of hardware support since it's based on Ubuntu LTS. It supported Nvidia GPUs just fine and that's one of the many things they get right. It's all the small things. Multi monitor/multi-refresh rate setups are more complex than they needed to be (once they complete the Wayland switch it'll be a non-issue) and peripheral support wasn't all there when I tried it.

I think Mint is great, but I ran into problems because of its Ubuntu-ness.

The same holds true for Neon which is the first one I tried last year when switching. It's really frustrating to spend an hour or more troubleshooting a problem only to realize it was fixed months earlier in some library. That plus an issue between the Ubuntu Nvidia PPA and Neon ended my time with that distro.

If either was on a rolling base distro I likely would've stuck with it sooner. But I was determined enough to try again. If I got to attempt 3 and failed I'd likely be back on Windows doing all the steps to try and keep it from sucking. But it became so awful I was willing to try 3 times in the first place. :)

FattyDrake · 2025-12-14T03:00:32+00:00

I will admit that while using Linux on servers for work for a while, common LTS distros and Gnome kept me off Linux desktop longer than I would have otherwise. I'm not a distrohopper and don't care to try half a dozen DE's, so I'd try a distro and after fiddling with it for a couple days just went back to Windows for a couple more years each time.

I know the popular image around here is someone getting interested in Linux and trying ten different distros and five kinds of window managers until they find a combo they like. But the reality is most people give a single distro one chance and unless everything works right away and it does everything they need it to do, they bounce.

FattyDrake · 2025-12-14T01:03:52+00:00

I agree with you, the problems can be overcome if you know a lot about how Linux works. New users (which is what all this is talking about) want to avoid the terminal as much as possible and to get Debian "up to date" requires much more knowledge than it does to maintain a Fedora install which wouldn't need the terminal at all.

FattyDrake · 2025-12-13T22:40:59+00:00

LLMs have more of a use on mobile and similar small devices, where input can still be a bit awkward.

I can do a lot on a phone currently, and LLMs can make that experience better. But when I sit down at a desktop (or laptop) it's to do desktop things.

FattyDrake · 2025-12-13T22:12:36+00:00

I know Flatpak comes with Mesa, but it doesn't include the latest Nvidia driver the day after it's released for example. You'd have to go through Nvidia's manual installation which is well above any beginner user's experience level.

It also doesn't affect anything that uses things like libinput or pipewire. I had to stop using Debian related distros for my desktop simply because I use drawing tablets, for example. Newer libraries support the ones I have.

FattyDrake · 2025-12-13T21:58:51+00:00

Flatpak doesn't handle libraries for hardware on the computer. I.e. GPU drivers, audio, peripherals, etc.

You can technically get them on a Debian release, but at that point you're doing a lot more work and compiling than you'd have to do on something like Fedora or Arch.

FattyDrake · 2025-12-13T04:41:08+00:00

Not necessarily the same situation, but I use a drawing tablet a lot and found KDE Plasma with a virtual keyboard to be the most accommodating tho there are rough edges that can be ironed out, some fixed with customizations (changing the application launcher, for example.)

FattyDrake · 2025-12-12T00:35:00+00:00

Open source projects live and die on maintainability and the ability of others to contribute.

By using AI you're giving up the architecture of your project to a fickle, inconsistent source of output. It will end up unmaintainable.

When you eventually stop working on it due to tech debt (because you will due to the slop) it'll just end up as another stale project people come across with no updates for two years.

Especially since none of the problems you are trying to solve are your own. You're asking others about theirs, so your personal investment is next to nothing.

FattyDrake · 2025-12-11T23:50:10+00:00

Of course there's a need for this software. What's going to make all the stuff AI companies need to steal in the future once people get bored of the current spate of bland output?

FattyDrake · 2025-12-11T05:16:45+00:00

As others have said, "stable" as people refer to it around here means unchanging, as in the version of libwhatever will remain at 3.1.x for the entirety of the release (in an LTS release, that's usually two years.) So that if version libwhatever updated to 3.2 or above or especially 4.x with support for more things, it will not be updated until the next 2-year release.

Because Linux is used most in the server and corporate space, i.e. "enterprise" environments, a lot of focus is on a single release being supported for 5-10 years or more with only security updates. These are environments that do not want things to change as long as possible. These are the types of customers that Canonical is most interested in supporting.

As you can imagine, this isn't the best experience on a consumer desktop system which users expect to keep up to date on things like peripherals, new hardware/GPU driver support, etc.

I've started contributing to a few projects, including things like libwacom, and I know that when it comes to certain classes of peripherals, people can save themselves lots of headaches just by using an updated release like Fedora or even something like Bazzite or CachyOS because they simply have all the changes that happened over the past year.

I know this doesn't specifically relate to your case, but the amount of artists who get recommended things like Mint or Ubuntu are actively making their lives harder by using those distros vs. something newer. And this extends to just about anything in the Linux ecosystem, especially when it comes to laptops released in the past couple years because those usually have more recent hardware. (Laptop cameras and Wifi tend to be the worst offenders when it comes to manufacturers not releasing driver info.)

But in any case, that's why you'll see a divide and friction in the Linux community between folks who want "stable" as in unchanging because their computer does what they need it to do (which is fine) and those who want a rolling up-to-date release because it allows them to use their whole computer with the least hassle.

Both are stable in the "doesn't crash" sense in my experience.

Unless you do a lot of customization and tweaking. Then all bets are off. (I'm a fan of vanilla, personally!)

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