*installs Ubuntu to feel good about my pathetic self by using Linux*

*suddenly realizes need to use Photoshop for UI/UX work*

*tries setting it up using PlayOnLinux but fails everytime for random reasons*

*keeps going back to Windows to work*

Feels bad, man...

There is gimp and inkscape... u can use them on linux instead of photoshop

@codeBoy read the tag?

You can totally get it working in wine. Keep trying man don't give up. You're not gonna learn anything this way. I think it's well rated in wine website.. it should work

@codeBoy I don't have the time to learn Gimp or Inkspace right now. Maybe after I get fired some day hahaha.

@YousifMansour Yeah, will be trying again. Got some time free so I can finally get around to working with Wine. Thanks though!

And that's where macos comes in

@liammartens *insert Apple hate speech*

Maybe this can help you
www.sixa.io

@heyheni Oh, hey. Thanks! That sounds super neat though being a broke-ass sucky developer / designer, I'd be even more broke using it lol But I'll still give the trial a shot. Thanks.

@theOverseer well I'm not an Apple fanboy or anything, I don't really connect with them if you know what I mean but if you want a UNIX based OS AND Adobe tools then there is no other option :P

@codeBoy except gimp can't do half the stuff photoshop can

@liammartens Hahaha, I was kidding. If I had enough money for it, trust me, I would've bought one ages ago. ;)

@drmirk I'll look into them. Thanks mate!

Run Virtualbox with a Windows installation. Problem solved.

@mlem no hardware acceleration on my laptop, feels bad

@codeBoy yeah sorry, but not inkscape nor gimp are on the level of photoshop. affinity photo is close - but still far away.
And I'm not a Adobe fanboy, I already try to use the affinity suite as often as possible...

@drmirk krita is - as advertised - a digital painting software and not that much foxused and therefore suitable for image manipulation.

Well I have an Adobe VM set up

As someone who enjoys gaming in my free time and needs Photoshop, etc while developing from time to time, it's pretty much impossible to escape Windows. I don't want to have to manage multiple OS installs and switch each time I want to do something else. I wish there was a seamless way to use window x86/64 executables on Linux. (Wine is shit for GPU accelerated things)

* Stay on Windows
* Install babun.github.io
* Problem is "kinda" solved

@feryardiant what's the difference between bash on windows 10 and banbun? :)

@heyheni bash on Windows? Did you mean WSL? At the time I wrote this, WSL is just piece of shit. If you have good enough hardware and you need native Linux performance, you'll find better go with vagrant or docker.

Babun is based on cygwin and you can run pretty much UNIX command under native windows executable and it has a ton of tools to make you ready to be productive compared to cygwin.

I totally had the same issue, for awhile was using dual boot. The idea of using Windows as my dev os horrified me, but when I actually tried to make it work, it's not that bad. All it takes is to 'vagrant up', 'vagrant ssh' and boom all my project linux env is at my disposal. And yeah, alas but bash for windows can't run server (yet)

Use a VM

@andys8 Laptop doesn't have hardware acceleration.