Adobe Photoshop

What works

Everything...

What does not

...except the Liquify Filters.

Workarounds

1.) Install under Windows, copy all Files in (Program Files, Program Data and User) to Wine Drive respectively, export registry keys.

2.) Create a Bottle Wine environment
        a) Settings:
            Runner: WineSys
            DLL: DXVK latest, VKD3D latest
            Compatibility: Bottles Runtime
        b) Dependencies:
            arial32, times32, courie32 (preinstalled in bottles)
            atmlib
            msxml3, msxml4, msxml6
            vcredist 2008 - 2019
    3.) Use bottles Registry Editor to import registry entries

Run, it works.

What was not tested

...

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Nvidia
• Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

This is a simple workaround (Python 3) script for Bug 35041 - Multiple apps and games crash with heap corruption or live-lock in libX11 (EA Origin, Garmin Express Fit, SMPlayer, LotRO launcher, Kindle for PC, Conan Exiles)('taskset -c 0 wine ./foo.exe' is a workaround). The script will restart Photoshop, if it fails to launch correctly.

 #!/bin/env python3

import subprocess, re, sys, signal

error_keywords = re.compile('^.*(Assertion|0x65372a0).*$')
success_keywords = re.compile('^.*(list_manager_QueryInterface).*$')
os.environ['__GL_MaxFramesAllowed'] = "1"

exited = False
process = None
successful_launch = False
timeout = 3

def kill_photoshop(signalnum, frame):
   if not successful_launch:
      print("Unsuccessful launch waiting %d seconds, killing Photoshop ..."%timeout, file=sys.stderr)
      process.kill()

signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, kill_photoshop)

while not exited:
   process = subprocess.Popen(["wine64", "start". "C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Adobe Photoshop CC 2019\\Photoshop.exe"], stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
   successful_launch = False
   signal.alarm(timeout)
   while True:
      if process.poll():
         break
      line = process.stderr.readline()
      # print("got line %d and process %s"%(len(line),process.poll()))
      if len(line) == 0 and process.poll() is not None:
         if process.poll() == 0:
            exited = True
         break
      if line:
         print(line.strip())
         if success_keywords.match(str(line)):
            print("Successful Photoshop launch detected", file=sys.stderr)
            successful_launch = True
         if error_keywords.match(str(line)):
            print("Error keyword match, killing process", file=sys.stderr)
            process.kill()
            break
   print("Process return code %d"%process.wait())

Credit: a friend of artik - see A .py script to 100% boot Photoshop CC 2019 using all CPU.