Photoshop on Linux?
A developer has patched Wine so that it'll run specific versions of Photoshop that depend on Adobe Creative Cloud.
Over the years, so many have stated that they'd consider Linux if Adobe's flagship application, Photoshop, would run on the open source operating system.
Well, if Filip Bakreski, who goes by PhialsBasement, has his way, that will soon change. Bakreski submitted a patch to Valve's Wine repository as a pull request, but the patches were rejected. Instead, he was advised to submit the patches to the Wine Project.
The patch focuses on compatibility issues with two subsystems, MSHTML and MSXML3, which are responsible for handling HTML and JavaScript rendering within the Photoshop installation graphical user interface. To solve these compatibility issues, the patch wraps the necessary data in Character Data (CDATA) to get around strict parsing on Linux and corrects Wine's ID handling.
At the moment, there is no indication as to whether the patches have been submitted to or accepted by Wine. That means the only way to get your hands on a patched version of Wine is to build it yourself, from the developer's GitHub page.
Should Wine accept this patch, it could be a game-changer for Linux, as it would add one of the biggest white whales that the open source operating system has ever chased. When you combine this possibility with the rise in popularity of Linux gaming, it could finally be the year of the Linux desktop.
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