If you haven't been keeping on top of all the Linux news going on lately, things have been pretty exciting on the "getting Photoshop running on it" front. Which doesn't sound like much of an exciting front, but given how long people have been waiting for Adobe products on Linux, any progress is definitely something to celebrate.

A little while ago, we caught wind that someone had gotten the Adobe installers to work in Wine, but they were struggling to get it added to the repo. They decided to upload it to both Wine's and Valve's Proton repo, citing that the latter is usually a lot faster to accept stuff, but it seems to have been rejected. Fortunately, the Wine team has been working on getting the patch added to their app.

Wine-Staging 11.1 gets fixes for Adobe installers added in

The first step of many, I hope

As spotted by Phoronix, it seems the recent efforts to get Adobe's software onto Linux are beginning to gain momentum. Phoronix states that it spotted some recent changes to the Wine-Staging 11.1 repo that show some fixes for the Adobe installers. There's a good chance the team has taken the patch published before and added it to the test branch to give it a go.

It's worth noting that this fix hasn't been rolled out upstream yet. As such, it's by no means a stable, supported patch at the time of writing. However, you can give it a spin with the Wine 11.1 testing build and see how it works for you. Just be sure to report any bugs; the more people give this a shot and identify problems, the faster other people can get Adobe products on their Linux machines.

If you're tired of waiting for Photoshop to make its debut on Linux (officially or not), you're not alone. One of our editors recently discovered the excellent Affinity app for Linux, and also gave Photoshop on the web a try. They're worth a look while Wine works on getting the Adobe installers working for everyone.