ON1 Photo RAW on Linux

While Linux is the best environment for development purposes, Windows has been my go-to for gaming and photo processing needs. But given how much time I spend in Linux, I naturally wondered whether I could reduce the need to dual boot. Gaming has certainly improved considerably, thanks to the efforts of Proton and Wine, but photo processing has always felt out of reach. Recently though, the same effort that’s gone into gaming has made it possible to run ON1 on Linux, and it works quite well. In this post I will walk through the steps I took. Approach I have previously explored running Windows applications in Linux natively using containers, but that approach is limited to CPU-bound applications. There isn’t currently a way to run GPU-accelerated applications in that way, which is often required for photo processing. Linux native photo processing applications do exist, but I haven’t yet tackled the steep learning curve to get them working the way I want. The most common way to run…