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    Exclamation Adobe apps are keeping me from installing Ubuntu

    I admin linux servers, have for the past 10 years. I would love to run desktop linux. There's only one company that continues to stop me.

    Adobe isn't going to release all of its platform for ubuntu anytime soon. They'll keep posting "we're looking into it" statements like they have for the past 10 years.

    I've heard that running adobe apps under wine is not easy. Should I go virtual XP instead?

    Here is what I need:

    Flash IDE
    Flex Builder (NOT the annoying Eclipse plugin version of it)
    Illustrator
    Photoshop (no, not gimp)
    AIR apps need to run.

    How bad is it? I depend on these so I can't have them just "sort of mostly" working.

    Or should I not run Ubuntu and just stick with XP? Or switch to macos which runs all of the above natively? I've been wanting to switch for 10 years and this always ends up stopping me.

    thanks
    Last edited by DrRotwang; October 10th, 2008 at 09:14 PM. Reason: better title

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    Re: Addobe apps are keeping me from installing Ubuntu

    I think virtualisation, dual boot or Windows only are the only options. For a replacement for illustrator have a look at Inkscape. If you won't use GIMP then I don't think any of the other applications have real alternatives.

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    Re: Adobe apps have kept me from running desktop linux for 10 years

    Quote Originally Posted by DrRotwang View Post
    Flash IDE
    Flex Builder (NOT the annoying Eclipse plugin version of it)
    Illustrator
    Photoshop (no, not gimp)
    AIR apps need to run.
    Photoshop
    http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...rsion&iId=2631

    Illustrator
    http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...rsion&iId=1424

    AIR
    http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...sion&iId=11071

    To get different versions of wine running at the same time:
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=942269

    DK

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    Re: Addobe apps are keeping me from installing Ubuntu

    Portable versions may run more better than install versions, i have flash cs3 and photoshop cs3 portable editions and they work fine.

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    Re: Adobe apps are keeping me from installing Ubuntu

    There is a Linux version of AIR, although currently it is beta.

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