Want to try to switch to linux again. Need some info.

• tidal-hifi

  27 788 8.6 TypeScript

  The web version of Tidal running in electron with hifi support thanks to widevine.

I have Tidal subscription - And i found this: GitHub - Mastermindzh/tidal-hifi: The web version of Tidal running in electron with hifi support thanks to widevine. Is this fine, or do i want something else? Is there anything else? Cause i doubt Tidal has a native app.

• jackctl

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audio on linux has improved massively in recent years, and a good number of my friends outright prefer jack or pipewire over anything windows has to offer, and tools like qjackcontrol or the in-development and creatively named jackctl allow for sophisticated audio routing if that's what you desire

• InfluxDB

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• LibVF.IO

  35 768 3.1 Nim

  A vendor neutral GPU multiplexing tool driven by VFIO & YAML.

  

For Affinity, I don't know. I have heard of people using Photoshop via VM, the problem usually comes when you need to utilize a lot of GPU because outside of GPU passthrough (might worth researching single-GPU passthrough and libvfio if you don't want to use two GPUs), GPU performance isn't great for VMs. I did find a few threads on the subject of Affinity on Linux, though, so maybe those could help.

• distrobox

  401 8,889 9.7 Shell

  Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox

Since you seem to do a lot of studio stuff, it might be worth checking Ubuntu Studio and its community -- plus, there's also AUR which you can access via distrobox outside of Arch (as far as Arch goes, the top three distro for that, if you don't want to do manual archinstall, are Endeavor, Manjaro, and Garuda).

• com.wps.Office

  3 19 1.7 Shell
  

There is also the option of using WPS Office if you need something with better MS Office format compatibility -- I recommend using it via Flatpak so that you can disable networking with Flatseal. For Resolve, I think this article covers everything, though you might want to use MakeResolveDeb as well if you're on Debian/Ubuntu-based.

• HeroicGamesLauncher

  755 7,199 9.6 TypeScript

  A games launcher for GOG, Amazon and Epic Games for Linux, Windows and macOS.

  

Epic Games works decently well using Heroic. Both Bottles and Lutris also have an EGS installer, but Heroic works more seamlessly in my experience.

• cassowary

  70 2,627 0.0 Python

  Run Windows Applications on Linux as if they are native, Use linux applications to launch files files located in windows vm without needing to install applications on vm. With easy to use configuration GUI

For VMs, you have several options. The generally accepted as "best" one is virt-manager -- I think this is a nice quick setup guide, and the Arch wiki should help with optimization and any other specific stuff you might want. Using the same underlying libraries, you also have quickemu and gnome-boxes. I have heard that VMware's proprietary graphics drivers are the best we have around, short of full GPU passthrough solutions, but I failed to install it last month when I was trying out an Ubuntu-based distro, so your mileage may vary.

• WorkOS

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• quickemu

  74 9,106 8.7 Shell

  Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines.

  

For VMs, you have several options. The generally accepted as "best" one is virt-manager -- I think this is a nice quick setup guide, and the Arch wiki should help with optimization and any other specific stuff you might want. Using the same underlying libraries, you also have quickemu and gnome-boxes. I have heard that VMware's proprietary graphics drivers are the best we have around, short of full GPU passthrough solutions, but I failed to install it last month when I was trying out an Ubuntu-based distro, so your mileage may vary.

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