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Re:Linux Hits All-Time High of 3% of Desktop PC Share After ... by jtriangle on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @03:04AM (#36768865)
For photoshop/illustrator, windows vm's work just fine. I will say though, I snagged affinity's photo/designer bundle last black friday and have been very, very impressed at how performant they are.

Shame they don't have native linux support really.

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Re:Linux Hits All-Time High of 3% of Desktop PC Share After ... by lyu07282 on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @03:13AM (#36768934)
How do you get 3d acceleration to work in Photoshop in a windows vm? Using the latest virtualbox with opengl enabled and the creative cloud, Photoshop doesn't work properly at all. The only way I can think of is using GPU passthrough but that's still very iffy
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Re:Linux Hits All-Time High of 3% of Desktop PC Share After ... by MattPalmer1086 on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @03:23AM (#36769009)
In the past I could only get 3d acceleration working in VMware. Had so many issues on virtualbox.
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Re:Linux Hits All-Time High of 3% of Desktop PC Share After ... by jtriangle on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @02:26PM (#36777120)
KVM GPU passthrough, use an AMD GPU, fairly simple, plenty of guides out there because Linux gaming is such a thing at the moment. Works fine.
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Re:Linux Hits All-Time High of 3% of Desktop PC Share After ... by lyu07282 on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @03:20PM (#36777862)
I've done that in the past but it wasn't very reliable, it seems incredibly easy to leave the GPU in an inconsistent state requiring a reboot, I've found IOMMU pass-through is absolutely not reliable enough in a professional or "poweruser" setting. But I'm sure it works fine for gaming and more casual users who use Arch Linux or something where reliably doesn't matter anyway.
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Re:Linux Hits All-Time High of 3% of Desktop PC Share After ... by jtriangle on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @05:03PM (#36793350)
Works much better if the host system is using the igpu and the VM has exclusive access to the real gpu. "sharing" GPU's is folly.
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