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Indeed. But what if we can do whatever we need with Linux, except for specific graphic, design and publishing at pro level easily. I say easily, because there are means to achieve that in Linux. We simply ask for the best. Indeed. Well, for me, there are few thing I still can do fast with Photoshop. One of them is the boundary warp tool for panoramas. I am lazy. While I could keep Windows to upgrade Photoshop, then copy it to Linux and run it under Wine, I prefer to have a full solution, from installing to running it.

Same here, on my Sabayon! Install VirtualBox, make a new virtual machine, set cores, memory, disk(s) and you're good to go!

@VanessaS, out of curiosity, what do you miss on Linux related to photography? I think RAW development is pretty capable, but that's almost all you can do. Hugin is usable for panos, but failed for me because a boundary warp feature is missing. That would be a good feature for any photography tool...

I think they should have a serious discussion with Wine/Crossover guys.

Man, I can't help myself, but to clarify one thing... Most of the guys here are asking for a Linux solution, not for a Windows solution, because they want to get rid of Windows completely, so virtual machines are out of question.

Yeah, who wouldn't... I'd be happy with a Steam version, or a Wine + Proton one, if not native, really...

I've studied the OSes, I don't hate any, I think all are at least excellent, but what's around them is questionable at least.

So if I am a person going in a remote place where there is no Internet access or cell, let's say as a tourist, in the mountains, and I own an Apple product, I can't use it at all (for other things a notebook or a phone is used than Internet browsing or phone calling)? HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAA!!!!

I think it's easier to control when having a business relation in the same country, with all the state differences, than overseas. Easier to access and to assess. Nothing personal.

I guess US companies support US companies, Adobe would count on Apple or Microsoft. They can rely on common values and laws. Linux is made by an Europeans and Ubuntu is based in Europe. Steam said they would change Ubuntu support for other Linux distro support, but wouldn't drop Linux completely. I am a Linux user and I don't like Ubuntu myself.

Thanks, @Dylan_LHDP, although I am not sure about the legality of this concerning Windows licensing. Anyway, means installing Windows, which is exactly I avoid.

Would you share the steps, please?

@gnx, see here: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45277

@gnx, same here with Wine, but they're working on it.

@Deviad, I have tried to avoid this kind of issues, so I moved to Linux. Even though it is free and open sourced, it might have integrated metering too. Can't tell what happens there, never got straight answers, but there are things integrated in the DE sometimes there too, so be careful. For instance, Gnome was delivered with Zeitgeist, years ago, on many distros. Sometimes not intended, they've just did not know delivering it. When trying to remove it, the issue was it would generally remove the DE entirely due to dependencies. KDE has KUserFeedback API, said to report data to Microsoft. Look for a distro that would have this kind of apps removed by default. At least, there is an option. A thing that baffles me is that big or medium corporations seem to accept that software they're using collects data. Aren't they afraid it is steeling their ideas, strategies and projects? Also accepting the OS so often updating and restarting the systems when it considers it's an intrusion. I know companies blocked for hours due to this. Or rendered unusable because of keeping updating some drivers, because they think they know better. On other hand, even if I don't care for what they might get, my computer would be taking CPU time just to process for them... Somtimes it even shortens the hardware life span just by scanning continuously when the user is not using it. I remember Windows scanning my drives all time, so I was wondering if some remote hacker had entered in my system and is looking for something... So, even though big IT companies would like to keep me prisoner into their cloud or my own computer, I chose to have a fine tuned OS that I know for sure what it runs, and it does it for me only. An interesting read: https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/.

I am not sure, I have analyzed the scripts and I see them downloading stuff from file sharing sources, not from reliable or official ones. I don't trust it!

@wonderings, I'm just kidding!

@wonderings, you are the Antilinux! HA HA HA!!! Sorry for the bad joke, no hurt intended!

Hi, an interesting read, if it's true: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8764.

I have PS subscription already.

By warping, I refer to this: http://kaiminghe.com/sig13/index.html. I think MS ICE is able to perform this, but does not run under wine, or I couldn't make it run. Sorry, I think Fotoxx is ages behind Hugin, which is almost what I need, except for the final touch, which is warping.

Do you know some tool working on Linux that offers a feature close to the Photoshop's boundary warp tool for panoramas? Who knows one?

I don't use those not because they look obsolete or they are not fancy looking, but they really miss functionality. I have requested features to them, never taken in years by any devs there, they look really busy due to the heavy request from their users to become more usable and implement productive features. They are literally buried in work to do and sometimes refuse good features due to that. They are also in their vicious circle, so it's hard to see the light. I think it's good to try investing money into them, but should it be on a clear direction and steadily. Once or few times is not enough.

Of course you can run any Windows in VM under Linux. For example, you can host a Windows Server under VMWare ESX (that is Linux based too), but also WIndows 10 under Linux desktop. You can do this by using VMWare or VirtualBox or other. It is not as "coherence", it's like a window where you have Windows desktop, if it's a desktop, can be run headless too. You can also dedicate hardware to be accessed directly by the virtualized machine (generally speaking, regardless the hosted OS). For instance, you can have a video card for the host OS (Linux) and a video card (or more) for the guest virtual machine. But the idea is to get rid of Windows completely, as it has a nasty update habit, it's buggy lately (I can speak as daily developer under Windows that their development environment is less and less stable - imagine paying for expensive licenses and you get the editor stuck or losing refactoring or behaving erratically). Worst of all now, Windows 10 can't boot if some virtualisation technologies are enabled. Not to speak of the metering, that seems to take an important part of the resources you have. Linux is as light you need to be. You can choose your DE and modules and flavors of the modules, or you can take some predefined setup. It's really lovely.

I think Wine devs could be encouraged to support Affinity by crowdfunding or donations or both.