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How is Photoshop performance on WinApps? (lemmy.world)
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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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[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (1 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.

[–] Attacker94@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (3 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

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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
[–] Attacker94@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

You seem to be a bit more advanced than I am, I have only ever used kritas version of smart objects, & perspective distort, but I don't know about the others you mentioned.

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Frankly the open source ai projects for krita are better than Photoshop

[–] Attacker94@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day 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

[–] Attacker94@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day 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

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 points 2 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.