At 11/27/25 10:54 PM, EyeSores wrote:Anyone got some good software? I was using Clip studio paint EX before windows decided I should throw my computer in a landfill, since then I got myself set up on Linux Mint and have been using Krita. Krita is... ok. I like it for illustrating. I really loved using CSP to animate though. I've tried a couple times to get it running on Linux but im not savvy enough. I have pencil2d installed but I haven't really spent much time trying to learn it, from a cursory glance it seems like it would be fine but it also seems a bit limited.
I'm trying to animate a whole bunch in 2026 so I feel like i need to make a choice in software that i can stick with for a few years.
I'm really hoping that some super genius out there will make a cool flatpack i can download that will make CSP work someday soon.
Have you tried Bottles or Lutris?
I would try Lutris first if you are a still learning linux stuff. I just checked and there is a install script for clip studio on Lutris. I don't have CSP however so i can't validate if it works. I have Starcraft 1, Warcraft 3, and a few older games i found around my house working with Lutris with either minimal tinkering or just targeting the windows installers. Lutris is more user friendly in my opinion, but I've had to spend more time messing with some of the settings for mainly older games, but it did end up getting all my games working in the end.
However I ended up getting FL Studio running again on bottles. It has a few windows programs with pre-install scripts, specifically FL. Looking through it just now I didn't see clip studio listed. You can still end up trying it anyway if Lutris is a flop. For installing things without an official install script through bottles, its been touch and go for me. Some programs require extra packages that Bottles does offer, but it doesn't automatically detect them and I find that bottles is just a bandaid over the nightmare that is Wine. But it is the only one that got FL working with my drivers, so I wouldn't write it off it.
If those 2 don't work you can always try running it through Steam, with Proton. I don't recommend using proton for programs that have installer .exes, (I'm assuming CSP does, Lutris asked for one), because you have to find the location proton dumped the program into and that can be a headache if you have a lot of windows games installed. BUT before last year I had FL working through proton on x11, but because I updated to the latest Ubuntu they switched over to wayland and it just stopped working. So given that we are on different operating systems, albeit more or less within the same flavor or linux, one of these should bear some kind of fruit.
And if you've already tried all 3, you could always dual boot or us a VM.
