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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by craftyguy on Saturday September 28, 2019 @10:16PM (#21104580)
> A. Being able to use some proprietary software not available on Linux

What software is this? Perhaps it runs under Wine?

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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by mastazi on Sunday September 29, 2019 @12:54AM (#21105165)
Adobe Suite, Ableton Live with various VST plugins. I’m going to investigate the Wine route, as I’m hearing that it supports many applications nowadays
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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by Nux on Sunday September 29, 2019 @04:07AM (#21105805)
None of the Adobe stuff works under Wine, alas.
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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by paulcarroty on Sunday September 29, 2019 @09:57AM (#21107049)
Fake news!

Use latest PS and Lr.

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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by tanr54ok on Sunday September 29, 2019 @08:44PM (#21110775)
I’m not saying you’re wrong. But winedb gives garbage status to the latest, the installer on playonlinux is unverified and posted by a banned account. I have found no testimonial that the latest works now other than yours.

So here’s the thing. Even if you’re right (and not confusing some older version as the latest.. that often happens in these discussions... what do you think is the latest version of adobe CC?), this is a terrible support story and not something that most pros that rely on adobe tools want to mess around with.

One of the winedb reviews says this:

“adjusting parameters in some effects such as lens blur makes program unusable (must kill app)”

Wonderful.

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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by paulcarroty on Monday September 30, 2019 @07:10AM (#21113840)
> playonlinux is unverified

playonlinux is dead last two years, authors decided to rewrite it.

> what do you think is the latest version of adobe CC?

2019.

About 1star reviews - guest mostly people are confused about installer, it doesn't works for years.

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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by tanr54ok on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @08:00PM (#21142125)
As I already mentioned even if it is just the installer that alone sets the tone for a poor support story.

Additionally what of the various bugs that are filed and comments about missing or broken functionality.

This is not something that most professionals want to dick with.

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