PS/LR on Ubuntu?

cab.in.boston

I searched the forum and found some threads, but I didn't see anything terribly recent. I have an itch to rid my house of its Microsoft infestation, and am considering switching over to all (or at least primarily) Linux.

Is anyone (Art Scott, I saw you asking this question in the threads I searched, but didn't see if you got it working) running LR and/or PS on Linux? I see that their WINE application looks like it can do the job, PS CS5 is rated "gold" but LR3.4 is only rated "bronze." Is anyone using this platform, and if so how would you classify the performance as compared to running it in Windows or Mac directly?

I am a hobbyist and do not have pressing demands for high-volume processing. I typically import and process anywhere from just a handful to a couple hundred shots in a day, and work up the few that I really like. So I'm not doing thousands of shots from gigs at a time or anything.

Currently I run a cheap PC with Win7 64-bit on which I have LR3.4.1 and PS CS5 installed. I store all my files on another PC which is currently running Ubuntu 11.04. I had issues with this Linux machine but have recently diagnosed them to a faulty RAM DIMM, and now that it's removed, the system is very stable and happy.

Although I'm not all that disappointed with my current setup, I'm considering building up my Linux box in the future with higher performance (more RAM, SSD to run OS and applications, better RAID setup for file storage, etc) and using it as my primary image processing machine. It's more for the desire to avoid MS than for any needed performance, but if I can't adequately run LR (I use LR more than PS, but I'd like to expand my horizons in that respect) and would need a dual-boot with Windows on it, then I'm not sure if I want to go this route.

So if anyone has experience running these programs on Linux, I'd love to hear any pros and cons.

Thanks!

basflt

dont know about Ubuntu , but

i heard that Darktable is a good alternative

http://darktable.sourceforge.net/

Dan7312

If you are willing to move away from LR, Bibble is similar in spirit to LR, but of course different. It runs on a number of Linix distro's. It has tools similar to those in LR, but also has regions that act like levels.

http://www.bibblelabs.com

cab.in.boston wrote: »

I searched the forum and found some threads, but I didn't see anything terribly recent. I have an itch to rid my house of its Microsoft infestation, and am considering switching over to all (or at least primarily) Linux.

Is anyone (Art Scott, I saw you asking this question in the threads I searched, but didn't see if you got it working) running LR and/or PS on Linux? I see that their WINE application looks like it can do the job, PS CS5 is rated "gold" but LR3.4 is only rated "bronze." Is anyone using this platform, and if so how would you classify the performance as compared to running it in Windows or Mac directly?

I am a hobbyist and do not have pressing demands for high-volume processing. I typically import and process anywhere from just a handful to a couple hundred shots in a day, and work up the few that I really like. So I'm not doing thousands of shots from gigs at a time or anything.

Currently I run a cheap PC with Win7 64-bit on which I have LR3.4.1 and PS CS5 installed. I store all my files on another PC which is currently running Ubuntu 11.04. I had issues with this Linux machine but have recently diagnosed them to a faulty RAM DIMM, and now that it's removed, the system is very stable and happy.

Although I'm not all that disappointed with my current setup, I'm considering building up my Linux box in the future with higher performance (more RAM, SSD to run OS and applications, better RAID setup for file storage, etc) and using it as my primary image processing machine. It's more for the desire to avoid MS than for any needed performance, but if I can't adequately run LR (I use LR more than PS, but I'd like to expand my horizons in that respect) and would need a dual-boot with Windows on it, then I'm not sure if I want to go this route.

So if anyone has experience running these programs on Linux, I'd love to hear any pros and cons.

Thanks!

cab.in.boston

I do really like LR, and it would take something pretty good to get me to move away from it. That said, I've heard of Bibble and would certainly be willing to check it out. This is the first I've heard of Darktable, although a quick read through their website makes it look fairly good, and I'd check that out, too. But I do think I'll likely stay with Adobe for the long term.

Dan7312

I think Bibble is the equal of LR in terms of editing capabilities and when you include the fact that all of its features can be applied by layer or brush, it's may be a bit more flexible.

To me it's deficiency and why I switched from Bibble to LR is that there is so much more info available, both for free and pay for LR. If you have a question about LR just ask on DGrin or a bunch of other places. There are all kinds of tutorial for LR too.



Dan

cab.in.boston wrote: »

I do really like LR, and it would take something pretty good to get me to move away from it. That said, I've heard of Bibble and would certainly be willing to check it out. This is the first I've heard of Darktable, although a quick read through their website makes it look fairly good, and I'd check that out, too. But I do think I'll likely stay with Adobe for the long term.

Art Scott

No I never got into it....back when you saw my post of questions, I headed for the Ubuntu forums hoping to find Shay Stephens, but it seems he has completely disappeared off the face of the earth.......and all I could get from their forums was that it did not work well and took lots of coding to get it to work........that was what 3yrs maybe longer...I can't remember...............

cab.in.boston

Art Scott wrote: »

No I never got into it....back when you saw my post of questions, I headed for the Ubuntu forums hoping to find Shay Stephens, but it seems he has completely disappeared off the face of the earth.......and all I could get from their forums was that it did not work well and took lots of coding to get it to work........that was what 3yrs maybe longer...I can't remember...............

Yup, it was a while back, which was why I thought maybe you'd got it all working since then. I think I may give it a try one of these days, as I said the WINE page says CS5 is "gold" and LR3.4 is "bronze." So maybe they're okay, I just don't think I'd want to go that route if it's horribly slow using them. Maybe I'll do a dual boot with Win7 and strip that down as much as possible, only using it for Adobe products and Ubuntu for everything else. Anyway, it's just ideas kicking around right now. We'll see how it works out. Just wanted to ask.

Thanks for the info!

BigAl

Try using your win7 in a virtualbox under ubuntu. Providing you can give the virtual machine sufficient RAM, you should be able to run LR and PS with no problems.