Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 5th May 2009 22:04 UTC
Many Linux users have experience with Wine, the application compatibility layer which allows some Windows programs to run on UNIX-like machines. During Ubuntu's Open Week event, Mark Shuttleworth was asked about Wine, and how important he believes it is for the success of Ubuntu.
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Most people I know don't buy them. They get them from TPB. But then I live in Sweden where piracy is really big. I don't know if this is true for other countries but the only people I know that pay for Photoshop are schools.
I do know a lot of people that would probably be able to use Krita or GIMP for what they do with Photoshop, that's true. Although I doubt it is 99,9% but it's the majority.
Still, I would love to see Linux become king on multimedia. Either by Adobe going multiplatform or some Linux application that do a better job than Adobe.
Other than games what most people that I talk to miss on Linux are the products from Adobe. And the features they use that GIMP or Krita doesn't have (correct me here) are stuff like those really easy tools for emboss, shadow, etc (don't know what it's called but last time I used it you accessed it by right-clicking on the layers). Another great feature is the ability to merge a number of photos into one and Photoshop will distort and change the photos so that they match each other. All done by magic. Very popular for photographers I know.