A free software developer has managed to run Adobe Lightroom CC on Linux using Wine. With the help of Claude Code, an artificial intelligence from Anthropic, they combined experimental versions of Wine-Staging, modified DLL files, and added auxiliary libraries to make the photo editing application work with cloud sync support and several operational tools.
Experimental patches and modified DLLs for Wine support 🛠️
The project is based on Wine-Staging, a version of Wine with experimental patches not included in the stable branch. The developer modified several system DLL files and created new auxiliary libraries to replace functions that Windows provides natively. The result allows running Lightroom CC with cloud sync and basic editing. However, some dialog boxes may cause unexpected crashes, and GPU-accelerated functions do not offer the full performance expected on Windows.
The miracle of Adobe running on Linux without asking for forgiveness 🙏
Adobe has never shown official interest in porting its applications to Linux. Meanwhile, penguin users have had to resort to virtual machines or convoluted solutions. Now, with a couple of tweaked DLLs and the help of an AI assistant, Lightroom runs. Almost like an act of digital faith, where some dialog boxes become Russian roulette: either it works or it crashes. But hey, at least it syncs your photos to the cloud before failing.