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
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.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