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Oh I'm not paying for them, but still one of my main daily drivers is Genshin, and I haven't found such an enjoyable open world exploration in any other game I've tried. (I'm PC-only so haven't tried Breath of the Wild.)
I would never touch a Mac, it's way more of a walled garden than Windows.
Also I was talking about Adobe alternatives like Inkscape for Illustrator or Scribus for InDesign. From what I've read they are really not there yet. (Tried Inkscape a few times, but the UI is so unintuitive for my brain used to Adobe's UI/workflow 😭)
Genshin is playable on Linux? I play it on my Steam Deck.
Thanks, that's good to know! From what I've read a few months ago when I last looked into it, it only worked with a fan-made launcher that posed a ban risk and also broke every few updates.
I just add the official launcher as a non-steam game and ran through the install as normal.
Granted I haven't done it in a couple of months, so not sure if that method still works...but I don't see why not
Not played genshin yet, but you might like where winds meet? Incredibly beautiful, good combat, exploring is rewarding. And totally free. And runs wonderfully on Linux, even with HDR.
Dunno about current adobes, but don't they also run fine via wine? Have only one single tool so far that makes a bit trouble (mediamonkey).
Thanks, I'll check out Where Winds Meet! :)
(Edit: according to their Steam page they use genAI dialogue and art, so that's a pass :/ )
From the reports I see on WineHQ, they are all various levels of broken, though the last versions tested were from 2024.
Honestly I recently only used some portable warezed one. CC6 or 2024 or whatever they call their shit now. I lost interest when they switched to that cloud-nonsense. Which is sad because I was there when they introduced Photoshop and i loved it. Newer than 2024 will probably just be worse. I'd bet they put a lot of effort in their DRM which naturally breaks things
I'm using the cracked versions released by m0nkrus, and they have worked reliably over the years.
Predictably Adobe's apps are now full of genAI crap, but sadly(?) they still release useful new features as well, so I keep them up to date.
Oh so I might give it a shot. Would never buy their stuff though. Then again, I should rather use gimp.
Genshin Impact works on Linux: https://lutris.net/games/genshin-impact/
I'm Linux only and I've played Breath of the Wilds (works on Windows too).
Go to your favorite torrent site (1337x to) and search for Breath of the Wild. It'll be packaged with the emulator so you don't need to do anything. It's a better experience, higher framerate, antialiasing, 4k upscaling and reverse tonemapping (Windows calls this autoHDR) (and basically anything that you can do with ReShade)
A few months ago someone made a patch which makes the Adobe CC 2021 and 2025 installer work in Wine.
https://www.xda-developers.com/someone-finally-got-the-adobe-cc-installers-working-on-linux-with-wine/
Come on in, the Linux water is fine :)
I always thought of Macs as not a good value before, but nowadays for laptops at least they seem to be relatively good.
I still find them annoyingly unintuitive, but that's probably due to lack of experience. At least they come with some (old) version of bash and support standard stuff like ssh out of the box from my understanding.
Haha yes, when I had to use a Mac once in uni it was like they made a point of doing everything just different enough from Windows to be annoying, like why are the window close buttons on the left?!