Thank you to James Lee, and this dumbass pic, I've wanted to join linux for real! It reminds me of the times windows XP was costumizable!! Most importantly!! What animations softwares work on Linux?!?! Can my TOTALLY BOUGHT Flash CS5.5 would work on it?? - ThreadSky

srpelo.bsky.social • 20 days ago

Thank you to James Lee, and this dumbass pic, I've wanted to join linux for real!
It reminds me of the times windows XP was costumizable!!

Most importantly!! What animations softwares work on Linux?!?! Can my TOTALLY BOUGHT Flash CS5.5 would work on it??

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hueehnchen.bsky.social•20 days ago

Tahoma 2D works on Linux

hosepriv.bsky.social•20 days ago

Unfortunately no, no Adobe app work on Linux, HOW EVER I would just recommend to jump to Krita or CSP for animations (you can actually make CSP work on Linux and it's relatively simple to do so)

notakin.newgrounds.com•20 days ago

i've dabbled into this sort of stuff myself, hopping from one distro to another to pick what suits me the most, it's not really the distro you like the most it's the distro that's the most useful and stable.

if you want to start i recommend fedora or mint.

srpelo.bsky.social•20 days ago

what about cinamon?? or anything build on top of mint? I heard that one is pretty friendly to anyone who wants to try Linux!

notakin.newgrounds.com•20 days ago

fedora should support several environments!

XFCE, Gnome, even Cinnamon!

pxldud.de•20 days ago

well,

Fedora has a Cinnamon spin. :3c
https://fedoraproject.org/spins/cinnamon/

fazzoc.bsky.social•20 days ago

Artist on Fedora here! I agree, they're both a great starter!

ruthlesspeasant.bsky.social•20 days ago

Adobe is very vocal about their disdain of Linux.😆It's almost hilarious. So it definitely cannot run natively, but maybe through some program magic. CSP can't do even that...

dev.parallelnocturne.net•17 days ago

Wait wait hold on hold on. Pelo said specifically Adobe Flash 5.5 which is actually quite old. It could actually work under Wine itself, the software that people have trouble running are the much more recent versions of Adobe products.

srpelo.bsky.social•17 days ago

I will check it!! I have a lap that I want to use and practice Linux with!! A friend helped me with a server with Ubuntu, and it was fun but hellish ahahah We tried proxmox but it didn't worked for a strange reason

dev.parallelnocturne.net•17 days ago

Hey Ubuntu is a pretty good place to start especially on a different computer! And yeah things can be a bit wonky to make things work if its a Native Windows program tbh. I do hope that this is something you can really get into as someone who's been around for 5 years using Linux.

dev.parallelnocturne.net•17 days ago

Also something to add, In case if Adobe doesn't work there's always the Wick Editor which has a downloadable version that's an Appimage file (basically a type of file that you can click and it would just open)

midijunkie64.bsky.social•20 days ago

Some specific versions work pretty well with wine. Specially older ones.
It will probably run fine with some tweaking.

I believe Krita can be used for animation, although it uses rasterized instead of vector images like flash.

awesumindustrys.bsky.social•20 days ago

Wine has gotten really good lately, but I'm pretty sure Adobe software is still hit or miss with it, newer stuff especially. I'd try to find some other program that has a Linux-native version (OpenToonz and Pencil2D are potential examples)

pepverbsnouns.bsky.social•20 days ago

Not sure about anything in the Adobe Creative Suite, but you're willing to go further back, you can get Flash 8 running with a bit of work.

bernardev3.bsky.social•8 days ago

Also, im pretty sure u can definitely use your "TOTALLY BOUGHT" Flash CS5 on Linux if you use WineHQ. (WineHQ kind of emulates Windows so Windows software can run on Linux, its not the same thing as a virtual machine tho, more of an actual emulator)

bernardev3.bsky.social•8 days ago

OpenToonz has kind of a steep learning curve but its free, works on Linux, open-source and extremely powerful. So powerful in fact that it is the main animation software that Studio Ghibli uses.

crimsonhecatomb.bsky.social•20 days ago

Tristemente el software de adobe no funciona en Linux bro. Osea, si funciona pero a traves de Wine y la presion de la tablet no funciona con Wine. Osea, si funciona pero con un passthrough y no supe como hacerle yo XD

zophiekat.art•16 days ago

Blender Grease Pencil is pretty good.

a lil fun fact, Blender development is primarily done on Linux so it is a native application!

Check out their showcase of different artist's Grease Pencil work. it good lookin

https://youtu.be/hzqD4xcbEuE?si=tZcKXqtjxgqlM799

theafterweirdio.bsky.social•20 days ago

There’s tv paint.

thielith.bsky.social•20 days ago

adobe flash professional CS6 does work under wine with some finagling. Swivel works too with less headache.

tyrzi.bsky.social•20 days ago

If you want something that has tweening, you can use opentoonz/Tahoma2D (tahoma2D is easier to get into), or blender with its grease pencil stuff (Vector drawing side of the program.), Krita is also a good option. OpenToonz/Tahoma2D is the closest to Flash's symbol based animation I'd say.

eduthestar.bsky.social•20 days ago

Yeaaaaah forget about installing Adobe on Linux, maybe if you run a very old version but not have hopes for it. In case you want to try plus it's very useful to have it, install WINE for adding a translation layer to run Windows programs https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Download

ruyyoshida.bsky.social•19 days ago

Manjaro User here. I think you can run Adobe Flash using Wine.

If you want some free-sourcr alternatives, i recomend OpenTonz (If I’m not wrong, Studio Ghibi use This one) or Blender using the grease Pencil interface

(Sorry if my English is garbage)

i-am-the-carl.bsky.social•20 days ago

Hello. I've been using Linux since 2008. I am frighteningly deep in the rabbit hole.

I'm happy to see artists like you giving it a shot. I hope this sends a message to developers that the future runs on an OS that serves the user. Getting first party support would help the Linux community a ton.

i-am-the-carl.bsky.social•20 days ago

Adobe is hostile to open source projects, so I doubt we'll see that kind of software running well on Linux in our lifetime.

Krita is fairly popular, free (open source), has an animation workflow, and runs natively. Perhaps the official tutorial may sell you on it?
https://docs.krita.org/en/user_manual/animation.html

i-am-the-carl.bsky.social•20 days ago

You can also use it on Windows as well, if you want to demo it before making the jump.

umisaki.bsky.social•20 days ago

I've been trying Krita for a while and it works just fine. It's got a fairly decent animation workspace but it'd probably take some time to get used to coming from a different program

srpelo.bsky.social•20 days ago

it's mostly the tweens and symbols from Flash, makes it easier for making shit posts ahahah

fazzoc.bsky.social•20 days ago

If you wanna find what works and what doesn't try a mix of https://appdb.winehq.org/ https://www.protondb.com/. keep in mind not all apps may be in the database, so sometimes a (possibly) quick search can help!

fazzoc.bsky.social•20 days ago

pretty much guaranteed though that adobe apps don't work, BUT i had CS6 working, and cs5.5 may work too. And according to winedb, it should work well, and may work better now since this compatibility report was made a while ago. Best thing to try is a dual boot first.

fazzoc.bsky.social•20 days ago

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=41678 oops, forgot to send source for the winedb page for CS5.5

fazzoc.bsky.social•20 days ago

But if running CS5.5 in a compat layer isn't your cupa tea, there's Krita (although, their animation tools still need some time to bake, and aren't vector based if that's what you want).
There's also Toon Boom harmony, which is natively on Linux!

fazzoc.bsky.social•20 days ago

As i don't wanna go on for too long, I'd recommend anyone who wants to stray away from adobe and adjacent products to take a peek at this list of alternatives. https://github.com/KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternatives

lulufluffs.bsky.social•20 days ago

Sorry bud Adobe hates Linux more than it hates artists.

notakin.newgrounds.com•20 days ago

Oh yeah that's a problem... good thing there's alternatives

simisearofficial.bsky.social•20 days ago

There is OpenToonz which is on every distro and maybe Flash CS5.5 could work depending on how you tweak WINE.

friedsquiddu.bsky.social•20 days ago

Mint user here, support on different "utility" software can sometimes be spotty but it wouldn't hurt to test out WINE and see if it works!! Especially since WINE generally does better with older software!
I don't know any explicit animation stuff that works but Krita art has native Linux support <3

leap123.bsky.social•20 days ago

Krita is made by KDE, of course it would run on Linux, smartass

friedsquiddu.bsky.social•20 days ago

we're on bluesky, not twitter, you could stand to be a little nicer about it at least

leap123.bsky.social•19 days ago

i just want to point that out your post make it seem like krita is some popular app that just recently got ported to linux 😭

friedsquiddu.bsky.social•19 days ago

then just point it out? no reason to call me a smartass bro we all chill here

but also literally any good apps having linux support natively is something cool to point out. never support adobe ever

leap123.bsky.social•19 days ago

yea ig

friedsquiddu.bsky.social•20 days ago

Basically, native Linux apps from big companies.. don't really exist, so if you're not looking for alternatives you'd wanna install WINE and test it out with any Windows apps you wanna use. Perfect support isn't guaranteed but most apps I've tried work perfectly fine through it so give it a shot!!

friedsquiddu.bsky.social•20 days ago

ALMOST FORGOT the link is https://winehq.org !! try the Stable build at first since the Development builds don't always work better

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