Can't use Adobe tools in Linux?

No, you can get some really good alternatives. Photoshop is pretty much gimp and Illustrator is pretty much inkspace, you can do the same things but you have to do bit more research.

Many people including me would be more attractive when treehouse includes courses for gimp and inkspace.

You can try "wine" tho, but there might be bugs, i personally think that VM is maybe the best option for Adobe :)

I've heard wine has bugs too, I may try the VM. I just have to find my old windows 7 product key before I create it! lol

Hi Jake, Very good question. Inkscape and gimp are good open source alternatives and expecially inksape is right up there. I would recommend you have a look at them but there are two cases in which you might not want to switch. 1st: You have used the adobe pendants a lot before, which means you might get frustrated with a different workflow and a different setup. 2nd You are working in a team that is using Adobe. In that case some file formats will give you a hassle. Plus the workflow and select functions like icon libraries are different and you will have to stick to Adobe.

You can look at winehq for support but I dont recommend going that route. You will always be behind the latest version and at risk of instabilities. The way to go is a virtual machine like VMWare Player or virtualbox, the latter is open source. You will need enough RAM for two operating systems but some virtual machines fit seemlessly into ubuntu and you wont even see that you are runnung windows or mac in the background. That would be the way to go. Best, Erik

Thanks Erik! I think you are right, I will set up a virtual machine. I have 8gb of ram and an i7 processor so that should be plenty! The chances are that I will be working with a team in the future and everyone will be using Adobe products! I wish I could up-vote you guys for these answers but it's not giving me the option for some reason -_-.

You going to have to run WINE windows emulator or VM windows on your nix machine.

Hi Jake, You said:

" I personally don't understand why Adobe isn't supporting Linux."

It's all about money.

Can you name any Linux operating system application/suite that has made as much money as the products Adobe sells for Win/Mac operating systems? Probably not.

Then there is Linux's percentage of market share (not good):

http://venturebeat.com/2015/10/01/windows-10-grabs-6-63-market-share-linux-finally-passes-windows-vista/

For those looking for an article on how to make GIMP somewhat more "Photoshop-ish":

http://lifehacker.com/how-to-make-the-gimp-work-more-like-photoshop-1551318983