Until Adobe patch’s the installer and licencing server to prevent it from working at all. (Too cynical?)
My thoughts as well. At least we can be cynical together.
My name is notthatyougiveafuck, and I approve this message. Also, fuck Adobe.
I personally never want to touch anything Adobe ever again, but for my father’s and grandfather’s use cases, they still need it, so if it ends up working well, maybe it’ll finally allow them to use Linux.
‘Allow them’? 🤣
With these companies you either take it by yourself or do without. They don’t ‘allow’ shit.
I am way too happy using GIMP now to make use of this.
Me too, up top! Recent releases made some really good improvements on ui and editing, too. Good times.
Definitely! There are some really powerful plugins coming out for the 3.x series now too and there’s even more great stuff to look forward to in the 3.2 release due out soon. Good times indeed 🤩
Same, but Krita
I haven’t gone too deep with Krita yet but I did try out some digital painting in it a few months ago and the brushes and brush dynamics were really nice to use.
This post only mentions that the installer works, but does the actual application work? Don’t get me wrong, the installer working is still progress.
the application has worked for some time; it just required a windows copy or piracy to actually get the application files
too late, I’m FOSS-pilled now.
FOSS is all about choice, isn’t it?
I would say it’s mainly about being free and open source.
In the freedom to modify software is implicitly stated the freedom to release competing works.
That should also be free software, which Adobe products aren’t
That means people need to have another excuse for not using GNU/Linux even though they complain 24/7/365 about Windows.
Still no autocad on Linux. Freecad works, but importing dwg files from autocad, which almost everyone uses, is always messy.
No, it means I can install Photoshop and InDesign for the couple times a year I need to edit a file in my line of work, and I no longer need to boot into Windows twice a year just to use them.
This is amazing news!
FWIW .psd support in GIMP is getting pretty good. Not sure what your use case is but it might be worth checking out if you haven’t used it for a while.
if you are doing such light work, krita and inkscape might be right up your alley.
not that it matters anymore now that adobe stuff is supposed to work better.
Great news for bloatware enthusiasts ᐠ( ᐛ )ᐟ
More like great news for all of those people trapped on windows due to needing that software for work who can now make the switch
Great news, now MS Office is all that’s left.
It works with Crossover, just hope they can port their changes one day.
That doesn’t exist. It’s Copilot 365 now so you’re not missing much.
That was horrendously misleading clickbait.
The changed the name of some stupid as shit “app” that only exists to open links to the Office programs on the web as webapps, which was apparently called “Microsoft Office App”. They did not change the name of Microsoft Office.
Simultaneously not as bad, but even dumber.
“Office” is completely removed from https://www.office.com/ The only place “Office” can still be found is in the urls. It’s called “Microsoft 365” now.
Edit: My mistake, “Office Home 2024” is still a thing you can buy apparently, but it’s not the full package and isn’t being updated. I’m pretty sure Libreoffice is a full replacement for “Office Home”
You’re right: strange how they keep shoving things nobody wants in the name of their product - first “Office” became “Microsoft 365” (subscription-only), then “with Copilot” (opt-out upsell) and now the mandatory Copilot upsell.
The silver lining is, small and medium-sized companies are increasingly ditching the pricey offering for employees who don’t have document editing a major part of their duties, making them realize LibreOffice is now good enough for their personal needs.
Microsoft 365 Copilot App
That’s the official name
For the desktop app that only opens links to the webapp versions of Office
They did not fucking rename Microsoft Office. It’s dumb enough without everyone uncritically parroting the misleading clickbait.
Why in the fuck was there even a desktop app to just open the webapp links? That’s dumb as shit! Why the fuck would anyone care about it enough to rename it? That’s even dumber! Why would…
You get the picture.
The reality isn’t as bad, while simultaneously being even more dumb.
Legit had somebody angry with me at work because their copilot button wasn’t showing in Outlook… Like what? If you can’t even write your own emails why are you even employed? “What would you say… You do here?”
Microsoft 365 Copilot App
Oh, you’re right. Without “App” though, that slipped through because someone wrote “the Microsoft 365 Copilot app” (a string you’ll see in official MS texts) in title case.
As much as I’d wish otherwise, there’s still genuinely no par to Microsoft Excel, the one software almost all businesses and orgs in the world run on. That status has remained despite Microsoft trying their best to enshittify it through forced Onedrive and now Copilot.
Fair, I still use Office 2007 via Wine. Even the newest one has the killer features (unless it’s the awful web version) but your willingness to use it depends on how strong your aversion towards proprietary OSs and AI is
For personal use, Libre office does everything I need. For work, Excel is an absolute beast. It doesn’t necessarily scale, but for those one off data comparison, manipulation, or validation often I can do it faster and easier than I can in SQL. VLookup was kinda cool. Index match is definitely powerful.
I still generally avoid the vb macros though I’ve found solutions online occasionally where they’re useful. (Reviewing the code to confirm it’s not malicious first of course.).
I only need simple excel and mostly rely on word processing so I’ve never actually known what exactly ms excel has that libre doesn’t
Is it like actual macro/coding capabilities within excel or just convenience/file compatibility stuff?
For me it’s the macros. Simple ones will work in LibreOffice Calc but the more complex ones crash.
I think the main issue I’ve seen is when people need bug-for-bug (or nearly so) compatibility with VB macros.
oh god please. i need ms office for uni, i use the browser version, and holy shit is it bad. it makes me regret google docs…
just curious, what do you need it for alternatives like wps and lo can’t do?
it’s excel isn’t it?
collaboration with classmates that use office, mostly
i guess we could use collabora or onlyoffice? but i feel like if i go to them asking “hey can you all create accounts on other services which you will find worse so i can avoid using a laggy website” they’ll just call me a nuisance
i guess we could use google docs, frankly docs is better than word online imo, but even then it’s trading trash for garbage…
Fortunately it takes only around 5 minutes of customizing the appearance of libreoffice to have it exactly how you want it
As if any amount of customisation is going to make LibreOffice not look like a janky mess on anything except the exact desktop environment and DPI settings one developer had…
Not that appearance is the most important thing in the app but whenever I open up Calc and half the UI is in dark mode, the other in light mode, half the UI is scaled to one DPI half to another, all the icons look like the best an unpaid software developer could do with 5 minutes in The GIMP circa 1995, it makes me cry a little bit.
lol no, Calc comes nowhere near the functionality of Excel no matter how close you make its UI.
I would imagine the vast majority of Excel written everywhere uses very basic features.
Not necessarily. It’s often less Calc’s capability that is at issue, and moreso its compatibility with imported sheets. Calc tends to have every feature I need when I make a spreadsheet.
I haven’t used spreadsheet software in decades, but I have helped some convert to Windows to Linux. Some of them did use Excel, and therefore had to learn to use LibreOffice Calc, and while they had some expected difficulties during the initial learning curve, they did say a few months later to me that they were eventually satisfied with the software.
Nevertheless, I’m sure much like the GIMP/Photoshop comparison, Excel simply has features that Calc doesn’t.
I am mildly curious. Could you give an example of a feature that its likely many businesses and/or individuals use in Excel that simply doesn’t exist in, or is too difficult to implement in Calc?
My bet is that there’s some weirdly complex things that become too niche edge cases that are difficult to transfer.
My opinion is when your logic becomes too complicated, maybe you want to have some sort of custom software. But, on the other hand, I understand that if it works already, there’s no need to break it either.
There are several types of basic Excel formulaes that don’t work on web Excel, and are ofc not in Calc either. Same with VBA integrations (within Excel and other Office/Windows services) that are used as core data transformation infrastructure to run entire companies, lmao.
I was not aware of these. Thank you for making me aware of them.
Already runs in browser
The web version is very inferior to the desktop one. I had to use it at work and it was a very frustrating experience, e.g. missing many conditional formatting options.
I just googled “does Adobe run on Linux” yesterday and saw it doesn’t…
This is great news but my cc already updated to 2026 and I am not in a position to pirate atm
If someone can get DXO PureRaw and Lightroom to work on Linux, I’ll switch immediately and won’t look back.
Just to put it out there: There are some excellent options for a linux-native photography stack which also work on windows and mac if you’re interested in trying those out before switching. Darktable and Rawtherapee are both excellent raw developers and Digikam for library management and light editing. You should find that you can pass files between each for a seamless workflow. If you did switch to Linux you would also get Geeqie which is blazing fast for inspecting, culling and rating raw files and is also interoperable with the above apps.
A really good resource for FOSS and Linux photography is pixls.us
have you tried it? adobe programs usually work, it was the installer that was broken.
i never tried lightroom though, i’m a bit curious if it’d work well.
I haven’t tried to be honest, I haven’t had much time to tinker around. I have a spare laptop that my work gave to me that was functioning fine but they were going to toss. Haven’t done anything with it yet so I may give it a try when I have more time on my hands.
Who knows what bugs in other programs this fixed. This is great news!
