Well, Adobe Sign is a cloud based offering, which is distinct from Acrobat itself. And it can only work as a cloud offering because they need to ensure audit trails for compliance reasons. In that regard there's DocuSign which is also cloud based. But as for Acrobat, there's Xodo, OnlyOffice, and LibreOffice.

are you just reading off wikipedia? Drools was created by Red Hat

No I wasn't, but I wasn't aware that Red Hat developed it.

Excel is the only one that works properly. I'm a drools expert. I've been working in drools for 15+ years. There are issues with using drools with anything other than excel. Of course you can use CSV but you lose a lot of functionality in the process. I'm telling you this as someone that has tried to get around these things and use alternatives for years.

Ok, fair. I have limited experience with it, but in the time that I did work with it, it seemed fine.

smh. jboss is not the same thing as drools.

You're right, I was referring to JBoss BRMS. It's been a long time since I've touched it, over 10 years ago.

Maybe you didn't come across the bugs I have

Clearly not, because as I mentioned, the project I was working on that used it switched to a different system. And no, I don't remember which.

Some software is absolutely necessary for businesses and there is no other alternative. Linux radicals seem to think that there's always a way around it. But there isn't.

And that is fair. I always tell people to use the best tool for the job, and sometimes the best tool is the one they know how to use best. So if it's Windows, then so be it.

I think it's more that enterprises want support and they want to trust other companies. You do not get that with linux.

Sure you do. There are many companies with commercial offerings that support Linux.

give me an alternative to Adobe Sign that works on linux.

You can actually use the web version of Adobe Sign from any OS. I know that's not what you were asking, but it's still a workable solution.

I'm not sure why you're bringing up vfx houses. Adobe doesn't have any vfx software. Their major products are Acrobat, Photoshop, Premiere, and Illustrator.

And After Effects.

https://www.adobe.com/ca/products/aftereffects/vfx-visual-effects.html

They literally call it VFX software. And that is what it is. And Photoshop, Premiere, and Illustrator all fall into the VFX category because you would utilize all of them in a VFX workflow.

Anyways, I brought it up because that's generally what people refer to when they mention Adobe when talking about Linux compatibility.

I'm going to look at RAWTherapee though and see how it does.

I know someone that does professional photography and uses Linux. They say they love RAWTherapee.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Someone just posted about this project so I’m going to be trying it out immediately. https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps

If there is negligible performance loss (which I doubt, but can hope) then yes all of your points are valid and there isn’t really any reason to not switch, besides losing support. For example I doubt Adobe will support any bugs I get using Lightroom with that tool, but I could probably deal with it.

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Oh right! I forgot about that project. I tested it out when I was first released and I liked it. I just haven't bothered with it in many years as there was nothing Windows only that I needed (outside of games, and Proton handles that).

Back in the day I would have wanted Photoshop, but everything I need can be done with GIMP, Krita, or Photopea. And I used Kdenlive or DaVinci Resolve for video editing.

For example I doubt Adobe will support any bugs I get using Lightroom with that tool, but I could probably deal with it.

You should have near native performance minus GPU acceleration. But even then there are solutions.

VirtGL is a project I've been keeping my eye on. It's usable now but only in certain configs.