Once the initial font problems were resolved, both Draw and Paint loaded without problems. The Interface For a user migrating from Windows, both CorelDRAW and PhotoPaint should have comfortingly familiar interfaces. This approach has several implications from a technical standpoint, but from a user's perspective it simply means that you can expect Graphics Suite 9 for Linux to have the same features in the same places as Graphics Suite 9 for Windows. While the user interface may be the same as it is on Windows, that by no means guarantees that the interface will be good. In fact, both CorelDRAW and PhotoPaint tended to have clunky interfaces and features that don't work quite the way one would expect.
Features There are both good and bad points to the effort to provide a duplicate feature set.
On the good side is the relative ease of learning CorelDRAW and PhotoPaint once you know their Adobe counterparts. Most of the menu options are familiar and function much the same as they do in the Adobe apps, and PhotoPaint includes a complete set of functionally identical filters. On the downside is the fact that trying to replicate the working environment of someone else's software is rather difficult and, in this case, not very thoroughly done. Despite these deficiencies, Corel does do a fairly good job of adding features that a home user will appreciate, such as a helpful splash screen offering options to do common tasks such as creating a new document, opening the last one you worked on, viewing a tutorial or scanning an image. I noted earlier that using WINE ensures that the Windows and Linux versions will function essentially identically, but WINE isn't perfect.