For several months I've been thinking about moving to Linux operating system. This would resque our old machine which is getting left behind when it comes to hardware (and it would also put fun back into computing). The problem is that if I convert the only machine our family has to Linux, it would mean that an important program, Photoshop, which we use everyday has to be abandoned. This can't be the case since my father is a busy professional photographer, and he uses the somewhat ancient Photoshop 5 LE everyday. He can't be forced to use GIMP because PS 5 is the same program they use at work (...why not PS 7 or something newer, don't ask me). My question is, does Photoshop run on Wine? If it does, what sort of problems does it have? Will the performance of a somewhat older PC suffer greatly? Sorry but FAQs and documentations aren't enough to answer this question. I need to hear user experiences about this. Converting the whole computer to another OS is a huge step and it's very risky business in our case. Unfortunately, we can't even dual-boot because of lack of disk space. Another option would be buying a brand new PC with Windows XP, Photoshop 7 etc. But I'd like to have another options.
On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 09:43:38 +0200, Miikka Leskinen <miikkaleskinen@mailforce.net> wrote:> For several months I've been thinking about moving to Linux operating > system. This would resque our old machine which is getting left behind > when it comes to hardware (and it would also put fun back into > computing). The problem is that if I convert the only machine our family > has to Linux, it would mean that an important program, Photoshop, which > we use everyday has to be abandoned. This can't be the case since my > father is a busy professional photographer, and he uses the somewhat > ancient Photoshop 5 LE everyday. He can't be forced to use GIMP because > PS 5 is the same program they use at work (...why not PS 7 or something > newer, don't ask me). > > My question is, does Photoshop run on Wine? If it does, what sort of > problems does it have? Will the performance of a somewhat older PC > suffer greatly? > > Sorry but FAQs and documentations aren't enough to answer this question. > I need to hear user experiences about this. Converting the whole > computer to another OS is a huge step and it's very risky business in > our case. Unfortunately, we can't even dual-boot because of lack of disk > space. > > Another option would be buying a brand new PC with Windows XP, Photoshop > 7 etc. But I'd like to have another options. > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.org > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users >Real user experiences with Photoshop 5 under wine: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=17&versionId=13 -- James Hawkins
Photoshop 7 runs near flawlessly: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=17&versionId=1336 Hiji --- Miikka Leskinen <miikkaleskinen@mailforce.net> wrote:> For several months I've been thinking about moving > to Linux operating > system. This would resque our old machine which is > getting left behind > when it comes to hardware (and it would also put fun > back into > computing). The problem is that if I convert the > only machine our family > has to Linux, it would mean that an important > program, Photoshop, which > we use everyday has to be abandoned. This can't be > the case since my > father is a busy professional photographer, and he > uses the somewhat > ancient Photoshop 5 LE everyday. He can't be forced > to use GIMP because > PS 5 is the same program they use at work (...why > not PS 7 or something > newer, don't ask me). > > My question is, does Photoshop run on Wine? If it > does, what sort of > problems does it have? Will the performance of a > somewhat older PC > suffer greatly? > > Sorry but FAQs and documentations aren't enough to > answer this question. > I need to hear user experiences about this. > Converting the whole > computer to another OS is a huge step and it's very > risky business in > our case. Unfortunately, we can't even dual-boot > because of lack of disk > space. > > Another option would be buying a brand new PC with > Windows XP, Photoshop > 7 etc. But I'd like to have another options. > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.org > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users >====M-Halo: It's Electronic Rock - http://www.mhalo.com/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com
> My question is, does Photoshop run on Wine? If it does, what sort of > problems does it have? Will the performance of a somewhat older PC > suffer greatly?I'm running Wine version 20040914 on suse 9.1, and Photoshop 7 works fine - no tweaks of fudges, thats "off the shelf"; though the actual installation was done on an older version (dec2003) I'd imagine photoshop 5 will be pretty good. There are some issues with floating windows and wine that mean the tool palette, navigator windows etc tend to get ophaned, don't minimise etc. If its a relatively old PC, you'll probably not want lots of applications open, so thats probably not an issue. Don't try to run it on an older version of wine unless you go back to december 2003; I couldn't get it to work on interim versions. The version above, though, tidies up issues such as accessing Adobe for updates (which used to misbehave and fail). Performance maybe improved by starting it with all the noise redirected to /dev/null wine '/home/ben/.wine/fake_windows/Program Files/Adobe/Photoshop 7.0/ \ Photoshop.exe' >/dev/null 2>&1 But if it misbehaves, that noise is then useful (if noisy!)> Another option would be buying a brand new PC with Windows XP, > Photoshop 7 etc. But I'd like to have another options.Well, obviously you don't need a new PC with windows to run Linux; its a needless expense. Suggest you might want to pick up a second hand PC to get Linux working on initially, experiment etc. If you hit any issues, you rather need a working PC to surf the web for answers! It might also be a way to get a second disk ... Linux is very nice on a fast new PC, though bleeding edge hardware is sometimes hard to get Linux to support. Also, try one of the boot-from-CD distributions - that could identify any serious hardware compatibility issues, and is a no-risk way to try Linux out. Not sure Wine would be there and / or work though. eg: Suse 9.2 - latest - is a DVD image; lots of sites here: http://tinyurl.com/ysnpt If you don't want or can't burn the DVD, if you pick your preferred site, and browse to the directory the DVD iso is in, you'll find two CD images as well - one for Gnome, one for KDE. Also, google for knoppix; this seems to be one of the leading from-CD distributions. regards, Ben