cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28905340
Anyone here working on Figma Desktop in Linux? It is the one activity that keeps me from completely shifting to Linux from Windows since it is something I do when I work remotely.
Would something like Bottles help? Or are there even simpler ways that do not involve working from the browser or looking for alternatives?
figma balls
I can’t read the word without thinking this.
I work with figma using the browser. What are the benefits of the desktop app?
from what i can tell, syncing fonts with your system fonts, faster performance (the web app can sometimes take ages to load a workspace), and maybe better handling of offline files
No browser memory management, access to local fonts, and I guess a few others.
an alternate software stack? penpot i think is free and open source.
What advantage does running Figma Desktop give over running Figma in the browser? It appears that the Figma Desktop is an Electron app. I’ve only used the web interface so I can’t say for certain but the functionality between a web app and an Electron app is usually pretty close.
And I heard Figma is a heavy adopter of WebAssembly which could be faster when running not in a wrapper like Electron. Since it is WebAssembly one can imagine the so-called “desktop version” has to be also WebAssembly and it has to have a wrapper around it.
If all these are true, OP just need to find a way to load the fonts into the web version.
Access to locally installed fonts. Separate memory management. Offline work. And, most importantly, ALL the keyboard shortcuts.
a virtual machine on KVM with GPU passthrough
Don’t they have a web app too?
