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by lambdaba 1636 days ago
Aren't Wine / some virtualization like VirtualBox seamless mode viable options?
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em3rgent0rdr 1636 days ago
Proton is a fork of Wine. Just more tailored towards steam games.
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brnt 1636 days ago
actually, proton is two things: wine+dxvk. dxvk is a windows (!) program that translates directx to vulkan. between the two of them theyre all thats needed to run games.

proton is in addition funded and tested thoroughly by a critical audience, linux gamers ;)

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tobz1000 1636 days ago
I've had no luck with Photoshop in Wine or VB seamless mode (PS's custom window decorators are probably the reason for the latter). A full-desktop Windows VM is still good enough with guest extensions though, so I can easily resize the whole Windows desktop with just a maximised PS window inside.
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kevingadd 1636 days ago
VirtualBox is a horrible way to run games of any kind. The driver support for graphics is miserable.
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underscore_ku 1636 days ago
WINE is an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator"
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Le_Dook 1636 days ago
Some software are hit and miss, or just fail to work on wine. Big one for a lot of people is the Affinity suite.
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juusto 1636 days ago
From what I saw only old versions of the software I need run and when they run lots of little things are missing.

I would call software with that amount of quirks and performance issues pre-alpha quality.

So, I can use my MacBook for Adobe for now until they come to their senses.

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