Re:I Replaced My MacBook Pro with a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB for a...
by cawlin on Friday June 12, 2020 @06:59PM
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I doubt up to date GIMP has many more features than Photoshop CS2 which was a pay once license :)
Re:I Replaced My MacBook Pro with a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB for a...
by heavyset_go on Friday June 12, 2020 @07:06PM
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I doubt it either, and I don't have CS2, unfortunately. However, GIMP gets the job done for my purposes, and I'm not limited to an old binary version that relies on components that will become increasingly deprecated with time.
edit: Ha, Adobe still has the download link for free Photoshop CS2 live. Apparently it works in Wine, too.
For anyone who is wondering, Photoshop CS2 works well on Wine stable on Linux. I'm going to be honest, CS2 and GIMP are pretty similar feature wise.
Re:I Replaced My MacBook Pro with a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB for a...
by toyg on Friday June 12, 2020 @08:30PM
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> Photoshop CS2 works well on Wine stable on Linux
But won't work on ARM, so it wouldn't work on Raspberry Pi 4. If Apple starts a wave with its much-suggested move to ARM, CS2 will not survive but GIMP likely will.
Re:I Replaced My MacBook Pro with a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB for a...
by heavyset_go on Saturday June 13, 2020 @02:40AM
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Definitely agree. It also crashes on a HiDPI screen, can't handle SVG or WebP and modern GIMP has more features.
The flip side of this is that the skills and apps you learn in the open source ecosystem have staying power.
I spent a lot of time learning to use old Photoshop versions pretty well, but these days I don't have a subscription with Adobe, so those skills have been lost to its walled garden.
However, I also spent a lot of time using GIMP during that period, and I can still leverage that knowledge 15 years later for free.