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While technically POSSIBLE, how viable is it to run Adobe apps, especially Premiere and After Effects, on Linux (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm keeping it broad by not specifying a distro. I'm just curious is this a real option for actual editing professionals? As far as I understand you can make it work by running under Wine, but I'm guessing this comes with significant drawbacks. I'm having trouble finding any information on both the current state of things with running Premiere under linux (most info seems to be from 2018 for some reason), and the extent of the drawbacks in a quantifiable way.

I'm generally a pretty happy Mac OS user, but I always want to keep options open. I haven't really tried to use Linux on desktop since the late 00s.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am heavily considering switching to Linux aswell (though from Windows). I guess I would just spin up a VM if I need to run something I can't get to work on bare matal Linux.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Dual boot for a while. Even if you're using a usb

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dual boot is too inconvenient. Just go Linux cold-turkey and run Windows in a VM if you have to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, dual booting meant Windows for me. I was just more comfortable with it. On the other hand some people have something to do compared to me at that time. Taking the time to learn how to do sth. on Linux isn't always possible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought about dualboot using two SSDs, one for linux, one for Windows and a VM on linux using the physical Windows SSD. Don't know if it is really possible though...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I remember trying to do that once, it wasn't possible IIRC but it might be now 10 years later

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's the plan. Windows will be on one ssd and Linux (probably Mint) on another.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Dualbooting is a great start for most people who want to switch but USB sticks have cheap storage controllers so they will die insanly fast if you put that kind of load on them permanentely and it will probably be slower than a HDD.