This is 2013 calling. Init daemons now handle all this for you. Your silly experience building servers out of matchsticks is hereby considered irrelevant.
Adobe stuff runs fine via WINE last I checked, although the vast majority of people who think they absolutely need Adobe's stuff actually just enjoy the phony sense of professionalism rather than the features it has over the alternatives.
http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/
I also suffer from this condition ;)