A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu

Re:A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu by dustinkirkland on Thursday April 06, 2017 @03:12PM (#14053627)

Hey there! Thanks for the suggestion.

We're engaging with dozens of major vendors of traditional/proprietary software about delivering their software onto Ubuntu via Snaps -- which is a new packaging format that solves many of the traditional problems associated with proprietary software working well on Linux.

I'm going to ask Evan Dandrea and Michael Hall from Canonical to engage with Adobe around CS and anything else in their suite that might make sense to Snap.

Cheers! @dustinkirkland

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Re:A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu by greenhatman on Thursday April 06, 2017 @04:27PM (#14054268)

I think for many web front-end developers, the only thing keeping them on Mac, is not being able to use Adobe tools on Linux.

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Re:A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu by DoofusOfDeath on Thursday April 06, 2017 @03:19PM (#14053693)

If we were in the same room right now, I'd give you, Evan, and Michael all a big hug. We'd all feel awkward afterwards. It would be worth it.

But seriously, thanks for giving it some consideration. Fingers crossed.

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Re:A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu by kahnpro on Thursday April 06, 2017 @06:28PM (#14055270)

I'm sure there are so many web devs, myself included, who would use Ubuntu professionally if only tools like Adobe and Sketch worked on it.

I know it's not directly Ubuntu's problem, but solving this problem will go a looooong way towards developer adoption.

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Re:A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu by monort on Thursday April 06, 2017 @03:27PM (#14053788)

Adobe Photoshop CS6 works almost perfectly in wine, but Photoshop CC isn't working. Probably, it can be fixed easily.

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Re:A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu by mhall119 on Friday April 07, 2017 @12:25AM (#14057121)

You can create a snap with Wine and a windows application together, which is one route this might go. However, because Photoshop isn't open source, we wouldn't have a legal ability to distribute it.

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Re:A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu by ChajusSaib on Thursday April 06, 2017 @05:53PM (#14055007)

I'll have to disagree with you there. There are still many bugs and it's slower than on Windows.

I would much prefer to have it without installing Wine.

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