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It's better with something like Winboat (virtualized windows container) within your OS than something like Wine. This is the same case for other "We don't support Linux officially and actively block it because fuck you" productivity applications like Adobe's suite.

Personally, I moved from Fusion360 to FreeCAD instead, but I haven't heard anything negative about the Winboat method.

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"Hey, you! You're finally awake. Trying to run Adobe software right? The boys managed to get things working smoothly with a virtualized method. They call it Winboat, a cut down VM that breaks Adobe's windows infatuation."

It seems like SketchUp uses OpenGL, which should be supported just fine by a linux GPU driver. I haven't tried it myself, but you could maybe try running it through Proton (idk if there's a way outside of Steam?)

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=6532

Looks like not great/no one has tried for a few years. I say give it a shot (far from tax season) and report back!

https://github.com/seapear/AffinityOnLinux

There's a Wine fork tweaked especially for Affinity that works amazingly well.

It can with the addition of WineASIO, but unless this release has focused on fixes for this setup (which it may have done!), we're still not ready.

I tried during the summer (albeit with Ableton rather than FL) and it's still quite high latency which turns into weird noise and artifacting if I try reducing the buffer size (with much larger buffers than I typically use on windows).

YABridge for native DAWs is getting better though at least, this time around I got a few more of my VSTs working, I still have zero luck with any of the VSTs with licenses that I have on my iLok key.

I can't wait for the day the guys working on this finally crack pro audio properly, it's literally the only reason I still run windows on my desktop.

And since every time I mention this problem, I end up having to say this in a reply to someone: To anyone suggesting I don't use Ableton or my VSTs that don't work (of which there are hundreds), I've got two decades of Ableton projects that I can open up in windows and pretty much carry on working on it as if I created it yesterday. That's before going into the fact I've spent a lot of money over the years on licences for this stuff, so being able to continue using it is more important to me than my operating system choice. Until I can do the same in Linux it's gonna have to be a dual boot situation.

That said when I next have a weekend with nothing on, I'll try this latest release