The adobe Photoshop installer parses data in XML but it turns out that the XML it reads is malformed. Wine correctly rejects this malformed XML in its counterpart to the windows XML reader but windows will actually just ignore the invalid XML and thus the installer still works on windows.
Turns out the software from a billion dollar company couldn’t be run on Linux because of bad code on adobe’s end. One must wonder if this was intentional on adobes part to rely on undefined behavior to fuck over anyone trying to use their software outside of what porky wants.
Anyway we have Photoshop on GNU/Linux so the excuses for hesitating on using Linux are shrinking, 2026 year of the Photoshop on Linux desktop.
It’s absolutely not intentional, it’s a “we legitimately don’t care” sort of issue. They have probably had people there notice and propose a fix, but they were quickly shut down and told “that’s not a feature”
The adobe Photoshop installer parses data in XML but it turns out that the XML it reads is malformed. Wine correctly rejects this malformed XML in its counterpart to the windows XML reader but windows will actually just ignore the invalid XML and thus the installer still works on windows.
Turns out the software from a billion dollar company couldn’t be run on Linux because of bad code on adobe’s end. One must wonder if this was intentional on adobes part to rely on undefined behavior to fuck over anyone trying to use their software outside of what porky wants.
Anyway we have Photoshop on GNU/Linux so the excuses for hesitating on using Linux are shrinking, 2026 year of the Photoshop on Linux desktop.
It’s absolutely not intentional, it’s a “we legitimately don’t care” sort of issue. They have probably had people there notice and propose a fix, but they were quickly shut down and told “that’s not a feature”