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I've been using Linux for over two decades, it has gotten so much easier over the years. I think the biggest consistent issues I still have is wayland/nvidia/amd, capture cards, modern suspend (modern standby/S0ix) and non-existent professional 2d/video/audio authoring (no real photoshop/illustrator/premiere/avid etc. replacement).

But there is so much else that just works nowadays that was a nightmare 20 years ago, the blutooth stack has gotten way better, audio is crazy good at this point (pipewire), gaming is incredible (all thanks to valve/proton), blender of course and moving so much stuff to the modern web (as well as electron) has opened up so much for linux by accident (like video conferencing, finally a decent office suite with google docs, figma, etc.). Of course the development/sysops story has always been better than anywhere else since everything is Linux on the server already anyway so its always been very friction less.

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I can realistically see that changing in the next few years with the arrival of WASM/WASI as it effectively provides a new set of compile targets for many of those apps to run in new contexts.

Photoshop is already moving to become a web based application as a result of it for example.

Yes absolutely that's going to be great for Linux, like adobe et al is never going to support Linux of course, but once they target wasm on the web we get it. Now we just have to figure out a way to trick Nvidia and AMD to give us proper Linux drivers.

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.

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

In the past I could only get 3d acceleration working in VMware. Had so many issues on virtualbox.

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.

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.

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.

Davinci resolve is in my opinion better than premiere, so that's a very good option.

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