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.

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    Don’t forget krita, as far as I am concerned they have feature parity with Photoshop, so long as you have no interest in ai features

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      Do you use it? Do you know if it has some of the features I need the most?:

      • CMYK with ICC color profile
      • Smart objects
      • perspective distort
      • hair mask refinements
      • perspective cloning
      • 3D text
      • Import 3D objects
      • Smart objects
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        You seem to be a bit more advanced than I am, I have only ever used kritas version of smart objects, & perspective distort, but I don’t know about the others you mentioned.

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        The only one I’m aware of requires a GPU with 6Gb of vram, which sadly I do not have, I would very much like a background removal utility that is run locally

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        The only one I’m aware of requires a GPU with 6Gb of vram, which sadly I do not have, I would very much like a background removal utility that is run locally

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      so long as you have no interest in ai features

      That sounds like a major selling point. I’ll need to check that out.