I’m keeping it broad by not specifying a distro. I’m just curious is this a real option for actual editing professionals? As far as I understand you can make it work by running under Wine, but I’m guessing this comes with significant drawbacks. I’m having trouble finding any information on both the current state of things with running Premiere under linux (most info seems to be from 2018 for some reason), and the extent of the drawbacks in a quantifiable way.
I’m generally a pretty happy Mac OS user, but I always want to keep options open. I haven’t really tried to use Linux on desktop since the late 00s.
Is there any good alternative to Photoshop on Linux? That’s about the only thing I miss after switching
There’s GIMP but it seems a little clunky sometimes, I’ve heard krita is good for artists but I tend to just use this kind of thing for editing images
A lot of people claim good luck with PhotoPea
It’s a browser app though
Extremely laggy as PWA in chromium, less laggy in chrome and has to be used in a normal browser window in firefox
Doesn’t work if I’m not connected to the internet and also ads taking up ~10-15% of the window
When it’s working in firefox it seems like a decent alternative and even supports opening psds which is incredibly useful but not sure I’d want to run it in a browser, if it was open source could shove it in an electron wrapper and be done with it but doesn’t seem to be, their public GitHub only has branding and information
I would like to mention Pixlr E. Which I personally use. I think it’s similar. Works great for someone used to older Photoshop versions (I have no experience with modern Photoshop, mind you).
GIMP is currently missing non-destructive editing (a rather core feature), but that’s something they’re aiming to fix in 3.2. I don’t know when that’ll be here, but that will be a good day for GIMP.
You might have better luck with Affinity Photo—it doesn’t really work well through Wine yet, but it’s getting there: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/182758-affinity-suite-v204-on-linux-wine/
I personally use Affinity Photo on macOS and I’m really happy with it. I like it more than Photoshop, actually. Fair warning that it will rasterize all your text layers in
.PSDfiles, so you’d want to be using only.afphotofiles, but it’s impressive how good the.PSDsupport is otherwise. So, give it a year or two, and Affinity Photo might be in good shape in Wine! I mean, I can hope.GIMP is, last I checked, RGB colorspace only, so it’s not a real choice for anyone doing print work.
Honestly, no there isn’t. Even if Gimp can apparently do a lot of what Photoshop can, you have to first learn, then jump through 20 unintuitive hoops to get to the same result thst Photoshop can do in 2 clicks. Nothing compares as far as I’m concerned.
I’m not sure there is really anything else like that on Linux though on a more positive note.
Most other tools I’ve ever had to interact with either have native support, run perfectly/very well with wine or have a good/better alternative on linux
Krita
As I mentioned krita isn’t really an editing tool as far as I’ve heard it’s more for art
I only ever really used it for editing
Paint.net used to be my go-to on windows because I’m too cheap to pay for a Photoshop license
Isn’t Krita more like an alternative to Adobe Illustrator?
Inkscape is like Illustrator. Krita is a digital painting application, so Photoshop. It doesn’t replace Photoshop in every usecase. But in that regard it’s better than the tool from Adobe (or so I’ve been told)