How to use Adobe Illustrator on Linux?
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Hello,
I am on Linux LMDE (Mint based on Debian). I use the Adobe Illustrator suite a lot for my studies, but on Windows 10 (which I have in dual boot).
I would like to remove Windows 10 from my machine to only keep Linux, but I need to find a way to use Adobe Illustrator on the LMDE distribution.
Does anyone know how to do this? Should I go through Wine? Or should I switch to Inkscape?
Configuration: Linux / Firefox 44.0
I am on Linux LMDE (Mint based on Debian). I use the Adobe Illustrator suite a lot for my studies, but on Windows 10 (which I have in dual boot).
I would like to remove Windows 10 from my machine to only keep Linux, but I need to find a way to use Adobe Illustrator on the LMDE distribution.
Does anyone know how to do this? Should I go through Wine? Or should I switch to Inkscape?
Configuration: Linux / Firefox 44.0
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Hello
The four solutions below are easy to implement as they essentially consist of installing the software via your package manager. I don't know if Mint offers this like Ubuntu does, but if so, it's typically what you can use:
https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/software-center
... or directly in a terminal:
https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/terminal
The links below will help you find the likely names of the relevant packages for each of the 4 solutions, provided according to my criteria, from the best to the least satisfactory.
1) First of all, I advise you to try Inkscape, which is nice enough to be cross-platform and quite well made. Personally, that's what I use for making my figures.
https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/inkscape
2) If it doesn't suit you, you can try to run your Windows software via Wine. But before diving into a complicated setup (since not all Windows software always works correctly with Wine, sometimes you have to "tweak" with winetricks, for instance), I suggest you first check if a kind soul has already done this work in a PlayOnLinux script.
https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/playonlinux
3) If PlayOnLinux doesn't offer a simplified installation, then Wine is indeed the next alternative.
https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/wine
4) If none of this suits you, the extreme solution remains: install Windows in a virtual machine (for example, in VirtualBox), which will at least save you from having to reboot every time. However, performance will be lower in a virtual machine. In this case, it's not for gaming, so I imagine it would still be okay.
https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/virtualbox
Good luck
The four solutions below are easy to implement as they essentially consist of installing the software via your package manager. I don't know if Mint offers this like Ubuntu does, but if so, it's typically what you can use:
https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/software-center
... or directly in a terminal:
https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/terminal
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install inkscape
The links below will help you find the likely names of the relevant packages for each of the 4 solutions, provided according to my criteria, from the best to the least satisfactory.
1) First of all, I advise you to try Inkscape, which is nice enough to be cross-platform and quite well made. Personally, that's what I use for making my figures.
https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/inkscape
2) If it doesn't suit you, you can try to run your Windows software via Wine. But before diving into a complicated setup (since not all Windows software always works correctly with Wine, sometimes you have to "tweak" with winetricks, for instance), I suggest you first check if a kind soul has already done this work in a PlayOnLinux script.
https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/playonlinux
3) If PlayOnLinux doesn't offer a simplified installation, then Wine is indeed the next alternative.
https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/wine
4) If none of this suits you, the extreme solution remains: install Windows in a virtual machine (for example, in VirtualBox), which will at least save you from having to reboot every time. However, performance will be lower in a virtual machine. In this case, it's not for gaming, so I imagine it would still be okay.
https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/virtualbox
Good luck
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Thank you for this very comprehensive response, I will take a look at all of that.