Yeah getting VR working had been the only hangup for me so far. Also wireless. It will connect but its insanely laggy and compression artifacty. Worked fine on the same hardware and network with windows.

At this point I’m hoping the release of the steam frame comes with a ton of fixes for vr on Linux.

Have you tried the web based photopea? Its a pretty close replica of Photoshop. Does most of what it can do. Only thing I still need Photoshop for is my photo printing workflow. Still trying to figure out how to do it and match the same quality with GIMP or dark table and cups.

I use the web based Lightroom as an installed PWA for most of what I need. I’ve got a windows 11 VM that I can run for a few features that are left out of the web version or if I need something in Photoshop that photopea can’t do. If I really need better performance for something I’ve got a Windows “To Go” install on a nvme in an external enclosure I can boot into.

My current photo workflow is to import and use geeqie to quickly batch rename, and sort with ratings. Then I upload the rated selections to lightroom for editing.

I dabble a bit with raw therapee and darktable. But I do a lot of editing on my android phone and tablet on the couch. So adobe keeps me locked in.

The web version of light room is so close to feature parity with the desktop version (not classic) that they really should just flesh it the rest of the way out since they will never make a native Linux version.

I use Zen as my standard browser. But vivaldi is my chromium based browser of choice when I need one. I wish they were open source. But for a non FOSS product I think they do things pretty well. I personally don’t mind those revenue streams they use as they aren’t that intrusive for me. But again, I only use Vivaldi for installing PWAs (as that doesn’t work well in Zen) and for the rare website I need but doesn’t play well with Firefox.

I’ve been using Linux off and on for decades, full time for over a year now, and only now learned this was a thing after I distro hopped to CachyOS and kept accidentally middle clicking on my laptop’s trackpad and getting shit pasted everywhere. I had to look up how to disable it because it was so annoying. I generally only middle click in web browsers for auto scroll and that’s extremely rare.

My computer at work runs windows. But I bought a cheap KVM switch and use my Linux laptop for all my personal web browsing and slacking off.