Long standing PhotoShop bug in Wine FIXED! It's stated that it was for CS5, but I've heard one report that it's also fixed a CC version, but not sure if it was the latest CC or not. I don't miss much from Windows, but the Adobe workflow is one thing I do miss. Possibly the ONLY thing I miss at this point. https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cg...
Has anyone got around to trying this yet? Maybe I can test tomorrow and report back!

Please do 😊

Reported:2012-02-12
Modified:2017-12-18

Tells a lot.

@JoshBent yeah, it tells you that proprietary closed sourced APIs are nearly impossible to fully reverse engineer (especially when they’re designed by assholes that intentionally make it harder to do). Maybe you’re not familiar with Wine, but they’re doing a great community service to give ungrateful assholes many of their M$ Windows apps on Linux and other systems, as well as some other valuable uses (Popular DJ software Ableton Live on OS X runs in Wine for example, by design). They do an amazing job at it considering what they’re up against. I have nothing shitty to say about the Wine team even if it doesn’t run everything I’d like it to, and I don’t see why anyone would give them shit for what they do.

@agaskins how do I keep hitting your rants lol

I was using linux for a big portion of my life as my main os, but since I am forced to use things like adobe cc or visual studio now, theres no way around and call it "shit"-calling some or the other party, but its a fact that if you expect photoshop to work even remotely as good as on osx and windows, you're going to hit a wall at some point, because the progress for some very basic things take decades to implement - by which there was already 50 new adobe CC releases, with new tools and features.

@JoshBent When I worked in marketing I used windows workstation and CS5 was the last upgrade before I left (it was that long ago). No ones saying Wine should do what you seem to expect of it. it’s insane to even think that windows apps SHOULD run in Linux (as it is insane to expect any OS’s apps to run on another system. If that’s the goal why leave Win or OSX?) What Wine does is an ongoing cat and mouse game and if you judge it as though it’s a product that is supposed to ‘run my windows apps perfectly in linux’ of course it seems like a fail... but there are many things that run perfectly in Wine and people use it all the time. However, none are promised, and mission critical industry standard tools don’t even make sense to run in Wine beyond an ‘it would be cool if this happens to work’ sort of scenario. Which is what this photoshop thing is all about.

@agaskins what you're most of the time missing is not that some other systems tools should run on other systems (besides cross platform), but rather that since almost no company wants to do that support and investment dive, to be able to use linux, you will need to have it run your vital tools somehow and thats where you hit concrete - wine, playwithlinux and whatever they are all called, are exactly trying to do that. Nobody would do it just for a gag similar to "oh doom can run on my toaster thehe", thats absurd.

@JoshBent The original post even said FINALLY fixed, so you really didn’t drop a knowledge bomb on us with the date comment, haha. I could understand your frustration if it was pitched as ‘the thing that runs all windows api perfectly’, but it’s not it’s a lot of people working hard to put icing on the cake for you. If you don’t like the icing cool, if it’s a Rick & Morty cake and you wanted Pokémon, well sorry, but it was just a cake someone made for you with love... But who the hell are you to judge their icing pipette skills? You can buy the Pokémon cake at Walmart and all will be well. So yeah, if I’m in marketing I buy a windows workstation and the latest Adobe... nobody said it would possibly replace all that... To round this out, I just don’t see how there’s anything to complain about here, Wine is all icing on the cake. It should be used for what it can do, but of course no one should expect their mission critical shit to run on it, haha

@agaskins It's more sad and frustrating than icing to be honest, since theres no actual change in decades to the situation that is linux and software support, so the dates indeed, tell a lot.

@JoshBent You seem to have imagined this narrative where I said something like ‘the bug is fixed Adobe pros, say goodbye to Windows. Long love Linux - no more M$!!!!’ Haha. I guess this is what frenemies do, though. I still love you @JoshBent.

@agaskins I have clearly said what I meant.

@JoshBent wow, you really can’t see how a project who’s work is a never ending reverse engineering of the closed source windows api is different than your standard say... browser or email client, or even a kernel project? Come on, I think your bright enough to see that it isn’t anything like that. Wines issue tracking system consists of bugs with potentially EVERY windows app ever made. Not just issues with their code, of which their are few. I guess you haven’t had much reverse engineering experience to understand what Wine really means as a project. But not to be presumptuous, i don’t know you... maybe you could reverse engineer the shit out of MS Windows api man. I would knock your work if you tried.

@root, @linuxxx help me here, i need some support haha. If I’m being ignorant I’ll gladly eat my words and apologize for my Illogic.

@JoshBent what should we discuss tomorrow? Nighty night. This app is fun.

@agaskins Nope I'm entirely with you on this one!