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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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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