Yes, it's generally faster to run Photoshop natively in Windows. But the original poster said he was considering trying Linux after having dealt with a bad virus problem, and was just wondering if it worked. It does work (I don't use it much; I never really cared for Photoshop, and only use it for specialized tasks I can't do with other software), and the small performance hit might be worth it for some of the other advantages Linux offers over Windows.
Note I'm not saying Linux is better than Windows, or vice versa. Everybody's got different needs and priorities. > Paul Stenquist wrote: > > Isn't this basically running a shell program of Windows, which allows > one to run PhotoShop? That seems like a stretch to me. Wouldn't it be > faster to just run windows on the same machine? If you have to run a > shell to use the software you want, you're probably using the wrong > operating system. > Paul > > > On Nov 14, 2006, at 6:02 PM, Jeff Monks wrote: > >> >> Quoth Francis: >> >>> I just got a new 100gig hard drive for my (old) laptop and (having >>> just >>> had a rather unpleasant virus fiasco) I'd like to switch to >> Ubuntu, but >> not unless I can run Photoshop and or rawshooter/lightroom. Is that >> possible? >> >> Photoshop runs pretty well under Linux using Crossover Office >> (http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxoffice/). Linux is actually >> becoming a decent platform for photo editing - with Crossover, you >> can use >> Photoshop; there's a native Linux version of Bibble; and while GIMP >> isn't >> Photoshop, it is quite powerful. >> >> You can always download a trial version of Crossover to see if >> RawShooter >> works, too. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML at pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
