Jeff Monks wrote:
> Quoth Francis:
> 
>> I just got a new 100gig hard drive for my (old) laptop and (having just
>> had a rather unpleasant virus fiasco) I'd like to switch to Ubuntu, but
>> not unless I can run Photoshop and or rawshooter/lightroom. Is that
>> possible?
> 
> Photoshop runs pretty well under Linux using Crossover Office
> (http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxoffice/).  Linux is actually 
> becoming a decent platform for photo editing - with Crossover, you can use 
> Photoshop; there's a native Linux version of Bibble; and while GIMP isn't 
> Photoshop, it is quite powerful.
> 
> You can always download a trial version of Crossover to see if RawShooter 
> works, too.
> 
> 

I'd tend to disagree. Until Linux has decent colour management 
capabilities, it's not really a good platform for photo editing since 
you will not be able to adequately profile your display.

-Adam

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