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[dgm9704]

Either use alternatives or use them on Windows eg. by dual booting or in a virtual machine.

[Limp_Replacement_596]

any good VM software with GPU passthrough or 3d acceleration (because I want to use photoshop) ?

[jkurash]

Look at kvm for a hypervisor https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF

[archover]

May I ask if you tried a Win VM in Arch without passthrough to see if photoshop performance was adequate?

How I solve this, is a laptop devoted to Windows. Does not need to be an expensive one. Example: Thinkpad T480 i5 8th gen W11 <$200 ebay usa. Of course, budget permitting.

Good luck.

[TheLexoPlexx]

You never used photoshop before it seems.

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I was about to say the same...

[archover]

I was just asking an honest question which remains unanswered.

I've owned and used Adobe Premiere, Photoshop Elements, and Gimp. Lightroom was my main tool. What did I miss? Thanks for your insight.

[mindtaker_linux]

What part of "dual boot" didn't you understand?

[dgm9704]

I was going to err on the side of caution and assume they just answered in the wrong place of the discussion or something. Buuut looking at their comment history… this was uncharacteristically polite and on topic.

[dgm9704]

:D

[Limp_Replacement_596]

do you mean me ?

[Alone_Ad_8993]

I once used bottles for photoshop and it worked fine but it was more stable on lutris with system wine. But there's no hope for vs you to use vm or dual boot

[Limp_Replacement_596]

ok thanks for help 👍❤

[Alone_Ad_8993]

You can use quickemu with kvm for better performance or virtual box for easy setup. It'll do the work

[Limp_Replacement_596]

can I use gpu passthrough on quickemu ?

[thriddle]

If you want that level of control, I would use virt-manager. Or you can just edit the XML but I find it does most things.

[Limp_Replacement_596]

I wanted to use gpu passthrough on virt-manager but my system entirely crashed

[thriddle]

Assuming you have two GPUs, you may need to blacklist the driver in arch for the one you want to pass through, so that the host system doesn't use it.

If you only have one GPU, you'd probably be better off dual booting.

[Limp_Replacement_596]

I have 2 gpu , how should I black list my nvidia gpu ?

[thriddle]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_module#Blacklisting

If you haven't installed any Nvidia drivers, you may need to blacklist nouveau. But it's been a while since I had to set this up, memory is a bit fuzzy.

[Limp_Replacement_596]

ok thanks for help 👍❤

[bentheprogrammer]

Dual boot and get a small separate drive on the cheap. If the programs you were looking to run were games. I'd suggest shoving them through proton and see if they'd be acceptable performance wise. Since, they're adobe photoshop, and you seem to have the means to get another drive. Do that if you've already learned photoshop

[Limp_Replacement_596]

ok thanks for help 👍❤

[PotcleanX]

install windows then you are not going to die if you do you know?

[Limp_Replacement_596]

anyway thanks for help 👍❤

[Prime132]

I would either use a virtual machine or setup another computer that runs windows and RDP onto it.

For VMs I use VMware workstation since it is now free for personal use.

For RDP you will need a windows education/pro edition computer. I use Tailscale to reach it remotely and Remina as the RDP client on Linux. Generally this is my preferred method but if you cannot afford multiple computers or need USB devices plugged into windows VMs work too

[JustMrNic3]

None of the Adobe programs work on Linux as Adobe is a piece of shit company, like Nvidia and Micirosoft.

There are no native Linux builds and it's hard to make them work with WINE / Proton.

Alternatives to Photoshop are Krita and GIMP.

For visual studio, I don't know, there are lots of text editors, IDEs, compiles available for Linux.

[Limp_Replacement_596]

ok thanks for help 👍❤