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Some say Wine is "cheating," but I say Wine is a platform. A good platform.

That being said, I feel like the various editors integrating Stable Diffusion eat into a whole bunch of Photoshop functionality.

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The current state of Wine Photoshop for the past 5 years is that it's unusable alongside other modern graphics software on modern hardware. The only high dpi version that you can expect to get working is CC2018 and it has a lot of bugs when running on Wine. CS6 runs perfectly and it's an excellent version of Photoshop, but it doesn't support high dpi so you'll have to lower your display resolution until you can read the menu text.

This won't help anyone who requires Wine as part of their workflow, I luckily don't, but I understand that Wine should be on target to handle Wayland by the next release early 2024.

This will give it proper HiDPI support and Vulkan rendering to help speed things up.

Does that mean CS6 on Wine will then work as if it was a hiDPI application? That would be amazing.

I should also mention CS6 runs fast as hell on Wine. It was so good that when I tried using Linux as my daily driver (before I gave up) I would change my display resolution to use it instead of CC2018.

That is a great question that I have absolutely no idea about.

I don't use Photoshop, but can you pin CC to an older version like 2020? I thought as a subscription they did mandatory version upgrades.

That site says that 2021 and 2022 are both considered garbage.

You can just install the versions that you want, even multiple at a time.

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