Has anyone come up with a way to run PL on Linux with decent performance?

[stuck (stuck [Canon, PL9+FP7+VP5, Win11+RTX 5070 12GB RTX])]

@bobkoure

I’ve already tried

Have you tried this approach:

I just can't stand using Windows as OS anymore - Microsoft has gone to far - where is the PhotoLab for Linux?

I’m not surprised Wine doesn’t work with PhotoLab given the complexities involved (low-level optimization, GPU programming, etc.). However, for me PhotoLab works excellent using virtualization (KVM/Qemu) on Ubuntu with GPU passthrough (RTX 4060). Yes, this requires a Windows license, but you don’t have to dual boot. The downside is that the passed-through GPU can’t be used on the host system, but nothing prevents you from spinning up an Ubuntu guest which can then use the GPU (since virtualiza…