One of the things that really bugs me about operating systems is that I want to use Ubuntu Linux, but I also want to use Adobe Creative Suite. Read my article about operating systems in general.
Here are some replacements that have been recommended:
Photoshop
InDesign
http://scribus.net/canvas/Scribus
http://software.viva.de/english/products/vivadesigner/
Illustrator
An old article I wrote on the topic
I was so happy to be using Ubuntu – everything was working out, it was so smooth and quick, but then just as everything was settling down, I was thrust back into the cold dark world of Windows.
It seemed that all around me from all directions I needed some Adobe Suite applications, InDesign for designing posters, flyers, a book, resume etc.etc. and some powerful video editing software, and photoshop’s powerful batch processing…
I wish Adobe would open its software to Ubuntu… Though they probably wouldn’t get much business… It’s silly to get an open operating system and then a huge paid application suite…
I’m comforted by the fact that I can use Chrome on Windows, and now that it’s behaving more like an operating system, I can forget that I’m using windows at all…
Since Chrome has the capabilities of using hardware exceleration, using the graphics/video card, it would be amazing if Google or someone else could make a Chrome app set that could replace Adobe applications…