u/birnes

I use Creative Cloud for my work, but I wanted to move my laptop to Linux. Adobe doesn't make Linux versions, so over the last weeks I built (with a lot of help from Claude, an AI coding assistant) a patched version of Wine, the compatibility layer that runs Windows programs on Linux. I'm sharing it because I know many people would like to leave Windows and macOS and still work in Adobe.

On my laptop (RTX 4070), these install through the normal Creative Cloud app and work with a regular paid sign-in:

• Creative Cloud desktop: sign-in, installing and updating apps, Adobe Fonts
• Photoshop 27.10, including Remove Background, Generative Fill and Neural Filters
• Illustrator 30.8
• Premiere Pro 26.5 with GPU (CUDA) and hardware (NVENC) export, close to Windows speed
• Media Encoder 26.5 and Audition 26.5

To be clear: it is free and open source, it contains no Adobe software, and it does not touch licensing in any way. You need your own subscription. It is also early. It has been tested on one computer only, so I'm mainly looking for people willing to try it on their own machines and tell me what works and what breaks.

Project page with install instructions: https://github.com/le-birnes/AdobeWine

Questions, feedback and bug reports are very welcome.

Someone once commented this version wasn't challenging, and really is more about relaxing, but I never thought it had 50/50. What am I not seeing?