Appreciate your responding, thanks.
Totally boggles my mind that all I need to copy is the .app file. Will try it! Your guide does seem pretty thorough and well-tested. I hope this means my system will not have all the Adobe bloatware background processes.
I'm prepared to do a little mixing and matching with versions with macos/adobe versions. Sheesh if only there was a reasonable way to run this Adobe stuff on linux, my life would be so much easier.
Thanks for the guide, will try it out.
Before I embark on this, I have a question about the point where you move the installed application from the VM environment to the host application folder. Is this as simple as copying just the .app file?
Why I ask: I notice on my computers with Adobe software that the installation process creates folders in addition to the .app file itself. For example at ~/Library/Application Support. Can I just ignore these folders or do I need to be move these from the VM as well?
Thanks for your effort in this.
The information in this post is also available here in a nicer layout, with additional details. I was slow to discover it so putting a link for others to find easily: https://wiki.dbzer0.com/adobezii/