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I hate Windows. But I have to use Adobe suite. Wine doesn't play nice. More than an hour of troubleshooting I feel is not worth it. I need to be working more than solving issues. Someone point me to how to make Adobe suite work (without hours of troubleshooting) and I'll join the Linux team. Do not suggest other software options I get the files for Adobe they have to be Adobe specific.
You have already been damned. There is no hope.
Yep. I figured. I receive and deliver files in Adobe. I 've found a few work arounds before but yah it's a non starter. At least I have a separate computer for daily Linux.
Honestly, Adobe and Microsoft deserve each other. It's Adobe you should reach to get you a solution, not us, Linux users. As much as we would like to help you, you are caged by Adobe and your industry "standards".
I'm so weirded out that Adobe has a native Linux version of their substance Suite. Only available via steam
I'd love to know what weird skunkworks shenanigans are happening in that Adobe apartment
If you're not willing to try to escape the terrible enshittification of Adobe, I don't think anyone's gonna be able to help you.
That sucks. Sorry you have to deal with their bullshit AND Microsoft's bullshit.
Other software might surprise you. 🤷♂️
I love the other software, Gimp ,etc. but yah I can't change an entire industry to adapt.
I mean, usually you can think about your own process as a black box as long as you can take in whatever format they give and output whatever format they need.
You have to make your own decisions, of course. I just want to say: it's not impossible.
Passthrough your GPU into a windows VM.
Ok. This might be interesting option if the lag isnt there. Any links/guides to accomplish this? Thank you.
https://github.com/TikZSZ/vfio-gpu-passthrough
https://gist.github.com/k-amin07/47cb06e4598e0c81f2b42904c6909329
https://asus-linux.org/guides/vfio-guide/
I used it for gaming. It had some weirdness back then, but it was on par with bare metal performance. I think it's still best done with two GPUs, with one being dedicated to the VM.
I don’t believe it’s Wine’s fault.
https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps This may be what you need.
I'm ignoring you're requirements and am gonna suggest you use GIMP instead. In all seriousness, you may want to look into a dual boot situation where you have Windows in a partition just big enough to do all the work you need to do. You could also look at VMs, but I'm not sure how well they would play with something that is resource hungry like Adobe products.
Yah. I like Gimp and hate Adobes garbage AI but Adobe files are a requirement for work. I have another computer for Linux stuff but truly wish I could get away.
Tried dual booting?
Linux for personal, Windows for work? I'd personally not mix work and personal on same device. Failing that, same OS.