Trying to install 3dcoat to work across 3 different distros on on computer

[womball]

My desktop is complicated, I have fedora, endevour os, and  lmde 6 linux on different nvme drives all in one  computer. I tend to hop from linux whenever one distro acts weird from an update or I get bored. I tried installing linux on a hard drive accesible from all three distros but the .sh file doesn't seem to work or the .desktop either. Any suggestions on how to get it to work? I just purchased 3d coat this week so not familar with it yet. If it can't be done which would be the best distro to use? Also I have a nvidia 3900, and huion kamvas pro 20 tablet which are complications.

Edited November 27 by womball

[Grakino]

3DCoat is going through hard times if we talk about Linux support. It is still on the migration to GTK3 from GTK2 for almost year. That mean we have 2 versions of 3DCoat for now: old, but relatively stable 2024.06, and raw 2024.28.02. The easiest way to run it from all three machines is to run windows version on Lutris. For me it work quite stable, everything what i use work fine, even my tablet (Huion SH610), update manager, downloading VDM brushes (that mean internet file downloading works fine too). This is my main production version. You don't need to do some extra settings. The only thing i did is switched wine version to "System" because in my case, my tablet working only with this setting.

If you really want Linux version only. Well, for now stable native support is Ubuntu 20.04 for 3Dcoat 2024.06. I tested both version in Debian 12 KDE X11 and they are working, 2024.06 works more stable just because Debian always has the oldest packages it can run any old stuff . I just downloaded and tested 2024.28.02 from my main Mint 22 X11 and it works. You should forget running it on Wayland, because it doesn't support it yet, but you can try run 2024.06 at least in Ubuntu 20.04 it works well. Maybe it will work in more fresh OS.

If you want to learn more about Linux support i would recommend to read last three pages of "Linux updates news". That should be enough to understand current situation.

 

Edited November 28 by Grakino

[SreckoM]

On PopOS, that is based on Ubuntu 22.04LTS, I have version 2024.06 working fine. Latest version has issues and it is not workable. I am slowly moving my sculpting work to Blender, and prob will stop upgrading 3DCoat. Blender just works flawlessly on Linux.

Edited November 28 by SreckoM

[womball]

The problem with blender is I can only hit 40 million polies. 3dcoat supposedly can hit 200 million which is helpful for pore level sculpting. Zbrush can handle it but its difficult to run zbrush on linux since the pen likes to lose pressure senstivity. 

[SreckoM]

Well with latest version you can hit 0 polies  At least I can not make it work on ubuntu 22.04, have disappearing viewport issue when in sculpt mode. 

[womball]

But it will work well in lutris? I got zbrush working although I tend to lose pressure sensitivity in zbrush. 

[SreckoM]

We are talking about native support not over lutris or other cross platforms. Not even want to bother with that, i am using 3dcoat for work not for hobby. I paid for native linux app. 

[arumiat]

Agreed. Was disappointed to try and run 3DC on Linux Mint 22, and have it crash as soon as trying to import any file.