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Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the good-friends-to-have dept.

S point 2 writes "Google has announced that they have hired Codeweavers, maker of the popular Wine software to make Photoshop run better on Linux. 'Photoshop is one of those applications that desktop Linux users are constantly clamoring for, and we're happy to say they work pretty well now...We look forward to further improvements in this area.' It is unknown whether or not the entire Creative Suite will be funded for support, but for the time being it seems Photoshop-on-Linux development is getting a new priority under Google."

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  1. They are fixing Wine, not Photoshop by hellsDisciple · · Score: 1, Redundant

    They aren't fixing Photoshop itself, they are making Wine better able to run it. Personally I don't know why adobe don't just go ahead and release it, although which toolkit they'd use for the graphics is probably an open question.

  2. Re:We already have Photoshop! by Curtman · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You will have a hard time making the argument to me that increasing the amount of software that can run on linux is a bad thing or something I should not care about.

    The issue is: The people who care about those things are cheerleaders. The people doing the work have already made the switch. They feel comfortable with GIMP, and find the one-window design of Photoshop weird and awkward like I do.

    If some company (Google for instance) wants some software to run in Linux (Photoshop for instance), they should damn well do it themselves or pay someone else to. Oh wait a minute, that's exactly whats happening.