The version that I use every day on my system is Adobe Photoshop CC 2016 (32 Bit). Turn off the ugly artboard menu and it’s smooth as butter. Turn on/off Hardware acceleration, shadows, tooltops etc.īEST version for linux. Old but still has tools like spot delete, smart selection. Photoshop on Linux Installation Compatibility guide. Wine '$/drive_c/Program Files/Adobe/Photoshop./Photoshop.exe' # go to the installation folder, and run Set-up.exe Winetricks atmlib gdiplus msxml3 msxml6 vcrun2005 vcrun2005sp1 vcrun2008 ie6 fontsmooth=rgb gecko Rule 3: Some tools are better in different versions of Photoshop (old vs. Rule 2: Newer version does not mean better performance Rule 1: You can use the 32bit version, or the 64 bit version. This article alone was published in 2016 and 4 years have passed since I first wrote this so I would like to mention the most important things I’ve realized during that time. UPDATE 2020: I have been using Photoshop on Linux since 2012.