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.

  • warmaster@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Winapps doesn’t do GPU passthrough so performance is just unbearable for Photoshop.

    Your options:

    • GPU passthrough
    • Slow performance
    • Photopea
    • Photoshop web
    • GIMP

    I went with PS Web & Photopea.

    • Attacker94@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      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

      • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
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        9 days ago

        so long as you have no interest in ai features

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

        • Attacker94@lemmy.world
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          8 days ago

          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

      • warmaster@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        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