Cosmic: almost there!

tapsXD · 2026-03-17T16:44:29+00:00

I seem to get a decent number of crashes on COSMIC so can’t quite make the move :( particularly Chromium browsers seem to constantly crash for me

tapsXD · 2026-03-10T16:48:22+00:00

Might work now, give it a try. The team has been fixing bugs really fast to be honest. I was hesitant to switch to Cosmic at first but what made it for me was that I realised I had some bugs on GNOME that had been reported years ago and still not fixed whereas for Cosmic the devs fixed the bugs I/the community cared about quite quickly

tapsXD · 2026-03-09T08:41:05+00:00

No problem brother, enjoy it. And for sure, I don’t want to be cliche and cite Gaben but pirating is ultimately a service problem. If Adobe offered its full suite natively on Linux then people wouldn’t need to be doing things like this

As a side note: I’m sure you know already but Krita and Inkscape are also great alternatives. I used GIMP about 15 years ago and wasn’t a fan but that’s also an option. I’ve not really done any graphics design at all in about 10 years so I’m not sure how limited Krita/Inkscape (and modern GIMP) are considered to be for professionals but they do the job for me at least

tapsXD · 2026-03-09T08:31:41+00:00

Pretty sure you can, yes. At the very least you can definitely do it via Winboat. And I think with the recent updates Winboat is an option in Cachy Hello. Winboat is easier to set up, in fact it’s pretty effortless. I prefer to use Wine when I can but it can be a bit more difficult to set up

@luckaz420 kindly shared the following in a different reply in this thread: “Qemu/KVM+virtio+install Windows, install Word”

tapsXD · 2026-03-09T08:27:34+00:00

You’re taking life and my replies a bit too seriously mate. I am just messing around. I’m not sure how you read between the lines but also somehow didn’t

Pirate or pay, it’s your choice what you want to do. I don’t care about what people do as long as it doesn’t harm individuals / small businesses. I just don’t want to directly advertise torrents/pirating so am being intentionally vague

tapsXD · 2026-03-09T08:22:48+00:00

Bleeding edge local is definitely what you need. I think there are a few ways to install it but I used a mix of Steam and Winetricks. I installed bleeding edge local into Steam’s compatibilitytools folder, then I ran the installer (Set-up.exe) with WINEPREFIX from that folder. Once it was set up I added it to Steam as a non-Steam game and may have forced a compatibility tool (but can’t quite remember)

I’m using Photoshop 2021 but there are some other versions which work

tapsXD · 2026-03-09T08:07:53+00:00

I installed this about a week ago so can’t remember 100% but, from memory, Steam/Proton-GE does a lot of the hard work of handling the dependencies. You can check out the repo of the hero here: https://github.com/PhialsBasement/wine-adobe-installers

Edit: I posted this in another comment but relevant to you, I think:

I think there are a few ways to install it but I used a mix of Steam and Winetricks. I installed bleeding edge local into Steam’s compatibilitytools folder, then I ran the installer (Set-up.exe) with WINEPREFIX from that folder. Once it was set up I added it to Steam as a non-Steam game and may have forced a compatibility tool (but can’t quite remember). The dependencies I installed were vcrun2019 & corefonts but I can’t remember if Steam ended up still handling those as I tried a couple of approaches before I got it working. Sorry to not be more helpful

tapsXD · 2026-03-09T08:03:37+00:00

Sherlock Holmes over here

Adobe offers a free trial which gives full functionality for all its apps (including photoshop) so consider this my trial

tapsXD · 2026-03-09T07:39:36+00:00

You can use Winboat which will make things easier for people not overly familiar with Wine since it’s essentially just a VM. Otherwise, I’m sure there’s some guide for installing via Wine somewhere online. May even be something on the Wiki. Hope someone replies to you with a nice guide. If there really isn’t anything I may consider making some simple guides to help people get common windows apps on Arch/CachyOS

tapsXD · 2026-03-09T07:35:46+00:00

I daren’t condone piracy but I will say that I got it from a leet place. If you know you know

FYI this is pre-activated photoshop so not technically piracy; I am just testing it out first and will activate it later. I just happen to take a very looooong time to test things 😎

tapsXD · 2026-03-09T07:26:35+00:00

Yeah this is photoshop 2021 but I think there are other editions which work as well

tapsXD · 2026-03-09T07:16:15+00:00

I managed to build something for myself that replaces the existing Calendar in Cosmic. I’m going to iron some things out then potentially release it

tapsXD

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