One annoying thing about CG production is the fact that you have to keep a windows box or two around for Photoshop, since Adobe in their infinite wisdom can’t port it to Linux. Works on OSX so go figure.
There are a couple of really good solutions for running Windows inside Linux. VirtualBox and VMWare are easy to setup run fairly fast. A wacom tablet works as a mouse straight away but getting the pressure and tilt sensitivity to work can be a hassle.
First the driver has to be disabled in Linux. Either via rmmod or blacklisting the module from loading altogether. Then the device can be selected in the Virtual Machine and the windows driver will work correctly.
Photoshop inside VMWare with wacom tablet working. This is great news. No more maintaining a windows box just for one application. VirtualBox 3.1 on Debian Lenny didn’t want to play along this far. VMWare worked better even though VirtualBox feels slightly more responsive.
The last option is to run it under Wine – which is quite buggy and unusable depending on version. So far the best verson to use is CS2. This works out of the box – just make sure the Wacom is loaded in Linux. The good part about this solution is that the tablet will work in other Linux apps as well.
Performance wise the wine version is great.
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