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Global gaming giant Xsolla has established a regional hub in Baku, launching the Xsolla-IDDA Incubation Program in May 2025. This program provides mentorship and grants to local studios to help them reach international standards.
Local developers now regularly showcase projects at major events like GameSummit , where the "Indie Game Award" highlights innovations in visual effects and gameplay.
A new training center, the Xsolla StarNest Academy, was developed in partnership with PAŞA Holding to train local developers for mobile, PC, and console gaming. Old Baku Yeni GuncЙ™lЙ™mЙ™
Xsolla has secured residency at the Pirallahi High Technologies Park, which offers a 10-year tax exemption to encourage long-term investment in Baku’s digital gaming ecosystem. Technology & Infrastructure Updates
In April 2026, Azerconnect Group and Nvidia signed a deal to bring GeForce NOW to the country, allowing players to run demanding games on standard hardware via the internet. Global gaming giant Xsolla has established a regional
The gaming landscape in Baku has transitioned from independent "indie spirit" to a formal State Strategy integrated into the 2022–2026 Socio-Economic Development Strategy.
Major technical shifts in 2026 are making high-performance gaming more accessible within Azerbaijan: A new training center, the Xsolla StarNest Academy,
In the broader context of the Azerbaijani gaming industry, significant updates are occurring through state-backed initiatives and international partnerships aimed at elevating local development. Azerbaijan's Emerging Gaming Ecosystem
3 thoughts on “How to Install and Use Adobe Photoshop on Ubuntu”
None of the “alternatives” that you mention are really alternatives to Photoshop for photo processing.
Instead you should look at programs such as Darktable (https://www.darktable.org/) or Digikam (https://www.digikam.org/).
No, those are not alternatives, not if you’re trying to do any kind of game dev or game art. And if you’re not doing game dev or game art, why are you talking about Linux and Photoshop at all?
>GIMP
Can’t do DDS files with the BC7 compression algorithm that is now the universal standard. Just pukes up “unsupported format” errors when you try to open such a file and occasionally hard-crashes KDE too. This has been a known problem for years now. The devs say they may look at it eventually.
>Krita
Likewise can’t do anything with DDS BC7 files other than puke up error messages when you try to open them and maybe crash to desktop. Devs are silent on the matter. User support forums have goofy suggestions like “well just install Windows and use this Windows-only Python program that converts DDS into TGA to open them for editing! What, you’re using Linux right now? You need to export these files as DDS BC7? I dno lol” Yes, yes, yes. That’s very helpful. I’m suitably impressed.
>Pinta
Can’t do DDS at all, can’t do PSD at all. Who is the audience for this? Who is the intended end user? Why bother with implementing layers at all if you aren’t going to put in support for PSD and the current DDS standard? At the current developmental stage, there is no point, unless it was just supposed to be a proof of concept.
“…plenty of free and open-source tools that are very similar to Photoshop.”
NO! Definitely not. If there were, I would be using them. I have been a fine art photographer for more than 40 years and most definitely DO NOT use Photoshop because I love Adobe. I use it because nothing else can do the job. Please stop suggesting crippled and completely inadequate FOSS imposters that do not work. I love Linux and have three Linux machines for every one Mac (30+ year user), but some software packages have no substitute.