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[–] Ugurcan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I thought Affinity apps is one of those that works great with Proton/Wine.

[–] Covenant@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] bagelberger@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

not sure what method you tried, but I was able to get V2 running via Lutris using the guide in this repo

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

not sure what method you tried, but I was able to get V2 running via Lutris using the guide in this repo

Relies on a patched variant of Wine, so hardly "works great with Proton/Wine". I tried V3 with regular Proton and the installer didn't even run.