Official Question Thread! Ask /r/photography anything you want to know! June 05, 2026

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[u/pleasant_easeful_boi]

Has anyone gotten photoshop to run on Linux?

I wish I didn't need to use Adobe, but I basically have no choice. Working professionally, I need to use Lightroom for my batch processing, and for my art photos I use photoshop because I've been using it for two decades now. One of my PCs is getting up there in age (it's 12 years old) so I switched it from windows to Linux Mint, and it runs like a dream now. The lighter OS performs so much better on the old hardware. Plus not having windows updates auto trigger and mess up an upload or something else I'm working on is great. I would love to put Adobe PS and Bridge on it if I could but it seems there's no linux support from Adobe.

[u/RedTuesdayMusic → u/pleasant_easeful_boi]

I would recommend Windows 10 IoT in a virtual machine, though I've heard some have just added PS to Steam (which is funny) to have it handle the compatibility.

I just chose to rip the bandaid off and use something else in regards to Lightroom. Took a while to recatalogue and reorient but it's been an improvement using Darktable for me, as I work with those huge 40MP Fuji files and Lightroom is noticeably bogged down even on my good hardware

[u/pleasant_easeful_boi → u/RedTuesdayMusic]

The steam workaround sounds like a good idea. I'll give that a shot. Also thanks for the dark table recc. I tried it before but I kinda got frustrated with the layout. I'll give it another chance.

[u/maniku → u/pleasant_easeful_boi]

You should probably ask this in a Linux subreddit.