A version of WINE (0.9.46), a free implementation of the Windows API for other operating systems released quite recently featured support for all versions of Photoshop up to CS2 to “just work”, so I decided to give it a spin. I’ve been using Wine mainly for games for a while now, and have found the support for DirectX very good. Still, I was very impressed with how well Photoshop ran – all the filters and operations I tried worked flawlessly.
Of course, there still are a few issues (like not being able to type into the serial number box in the installer, and a small issue with window focus), but for the most part, it was very impressive. The Wine developers have done an amazingly well, and I wish them luck with future versions.
You can see my testing report here. My screenshot is there too – with a slight spelling mistake…
