I spent much of today trying to get WinApps running on NixOS. The VM performance is meh after following all the setup steps in the documentation, and I can’t get the RDP part working. I’m not asking for help, which would probably take lots of back and forth commenting. but if I should even try to continue. The steps don’t even mention Nix, only how to install dependencies via package managers.

I tried finding videos of Photoshop in WinApps but didn’t find any, to see what performance actually looks like. Would it even be decent, or should I just suck it up and do GPU passthrough? Ideally I’d like Photoshop a window part of my linux desktop instead of switching back and forth between OSes. Making something work has been a PITA so far.

  • Euphoma@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 days ago

    WinApps has a nix flake. Also I don’t have photoshop so I can’t comment on that. However a cracked version of fl studio ran pretty well on my pc (nixos) screenshot of winapps github page

  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Sorry for being slightly off-topic, but I desperately wish there was a way to run the Affinity Suite reliably on Linux. I will never touch another Adobe product again and this is the only remaining pain point for me on Linux.

    • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Mhheee, i used to use Affinity Designer and changed to Inkscape, it’s more then good enough for me…Inkscape are on Mastodon as well

      I went the opposite way, if companies can’t be ass’d supporting Linux I cant be asse’d supporting them.

      That said Affinity were sold to Canva so it can only enshitify from here, so i figured I just got out early anyway.

      The only hard one for me was Lightroom to Darktable, not because Darktable is bad but becase it’s so powerful it’s a little over whelming for a part time user like me.

      Darktable is also on Mastodon, so that’s good.

    • KammicRelief@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 days ago

      me too!!! I went fully linux thinking “I’ll figure it out,” and I have, for everything except affinity. That hobby is basically on hold now. I might just finally check out (gulp) gimp.

  • snowe@programming.dev
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    5 days ago

    I struggled with WinApps as well. wasn’t ever able to get gpu passthrough working either, and trying to do so really destabilized my computer. I pretty much gave up. That’s not to say that WinApps doesn’t work. It does, it’s just not near native for me. There’s definitely slowness, at least with Lightroom, I haven’t tested with PS yet, though I have installed it.