landstrykere
8-Mar-2025, 23:16
I bought a license of Negative Lab Pro in 03.2020 after I tested how to run Lightroom 6.nn on Linux and FreeBSD. I donīt use Windows nor MacOS on my devices. I used Negative Lab Pro a couple months and switched to ColorPerfect,, running in PhotoLine on WINE. Yesterday while tidying a hard disk, there was the Negative Lab Pro files I had archived, and I decided to see how it goes on WINE now.
WINE is a Windows emulator. The other way to run Windows software on Linux is by installing a Windows inside Virtualbox or VMware hardware emulators, then install the wanted software inside the virtual Windows. It works well but needs to pull a whole virtual PC just for that. WINE is much lighter but not many softwares run on it. Advantage is it runs on FreeBSD too.
in 2020 I had to install sets of additional Windows libraries in order to have Lightroom 6 running. Yesterday, on WINE 10.1 it worked without any tweak.
Lightroom 6 was the last non-subscription version, last update 6.14. WINE is set for the Windows 7 profile in winecfg. Lightroom takes ~1,9gb on disk. Installation puts a LR icon on desktop, depending what windows manager you use, or you create the icon yourself so you can click-start LR.
There is a quirk: the "Convert negatives" text doesn't show, you have just to click inside the field where it is supposed to be. The empty rectangle:
https://i.postimg.cc/WszG4RNx/Skjermbilde-2025-03-09-05-41-34.jpg
a short video recording, it shows the Linux version, the paths of the setting, I have an executable bash in /usr/local/bin for the full wine argument, so it simplier both in console or on icon shortcut. I trigger LR at 2:20, apply NLP on a raw colour negative and show that NLP editing cursors work, as well as rendering.
https://youtu.be/JEcNRIBNPtg
WINE is a Windows emulator. The other way to run Windows software on Linux is by installing a Windows inside Virtualbox or VMware hardware emulators, then install the wanted software inside the virtual Windows. It works well but needs to pull a whole virtual PC just for that. WINE is much lighter but not many softwares run on it. Advantage is it runs on FreeBSD too.
in 2020 I had to install sets of additional Windows libraries in order to have Lightroom 6 running. Yesterday, on WINE 10.1 it worked without any tweak.
Lightroom 6 was the last non-subscription version, last update 6.14. WINE is set for the Windows 7 profile in winecfg. Lightroom takes ~1,9gb on disk. Installation puts a LR icon on desktop, depending what windows manager you use, or you create the icon yourself so you can click-start LR.
There is a quirk: the "Convert negatives" text doesn't show, you have just to click inside the field where it is supposed to be. The empty rectangle:
https://i.postimg.cc/WszG4RNx/Skjermbilde-2025-03-09-05-41-34.jpg
a short video recording, it shows the Linux version, the paths of the setting, I have an executable bash in /usr/local/bin for the full wine argument, so it simplier both in console or on icon shortcut. I trigger LR at 2:20, apply NLP on a raw colour negative and show that NLP editing cursors work, as well as rendering.
https://youtu.be/JEcNRIBNPtg