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Yeah works fine now. Was a matter of some annoying symlinking.
Thanks again, and I will have to make a decision soon. While having a non-internet-connected Windows 10 installation on the other SSD might sound like a good idea, the problem is that when it comes to activating and deactivating software installations, you still need to connect to the internet.
Unless DaVinci Resolve Studio allows offline activation/deactivation, I'd not be able to do that, and I'm not sure it does, or at least I don't recall seeing it. At the moment, that fancy new release is a beta, and I don't fancy downloading that lot (huge download with the new locally installed AI stuff) until I've decided one way or the other.
No matter what (and no matter which distro), I'll only ever use Linux as my main OS from now on, but I still need to think smart on the other stuff until I get an Nvidia.
Decision made. In order to avoid a separate Windows 10 install, I might as well go for the (hopefully accelerated) option of a Virtual machine running on CachyOS. Because if I can get that running ok, then at least I can run this stuff without installing two OSs. I know that technically Windows 10 is still a different OS, but as long as it's running from within the Linux OS then I still see that as a Linux solution, at least until I get an Nvidia card.
There's been stuff posted by bluejaune, Robert and TImberWolf. I've intentionally not done anything in that regards so far, meaning I've not taken any steps as yet to install a Virtual Machine. So considering that situation, what's the best Virtual Machine option for CachyOS that (hopefully) allows acceleration passthrough of an AMD card? There's a few options been mentioned so far, but for my setup specifically, I'm still unsure which option is most likely to succeed.
Whatever option that is, I'm ready to go full steam ahead with it, but really need another step-by-step, hoping I've not worn-out anyone's patience!
I've lost track. What were you needing Windows for again?
Really to get dForce back. DaVinci Resolve Studio is another I need to run, and from the sounds of it I'll need to run that on Windows as well (until I get an Nvidia card). From the stuff I've read in this thread, it think it's a losing battle trying to getting either of those running natively on Linux (while I'm on AMD).
This is all starting to feel a little dogmatic...
I don't think anyone will be able to offer practical help for this endeavour because none of us use a virtual machine with hardware passthrough on Cachy. Please go and read the 20+ page guide that Robert posted earlier (and it is just a guide because what steps you actually take and the files you have to code yourself will be different from those the author needed) all the way through. All of it, in depth, not just the first paragraph! Once you've got through that and are confident that you can manage it, your next task is to find out which of those debian packages are held and what they're called in the Cachy repos, or the AUR archives...
You are effectively asking us how to build the whip you wish to flaggelate your own back with!
I can't help any further I'm afraid. My answer is to dual boot your system and use an exFAT drive (can just be a USB stick permanently plugged in) to pass files between the two or just allow Cachy to read the NTFS drive. This is not the answer you want to hear and it doesn't answer your question. It will, however, work.
The only other option is to try Linux Mint and see if dForce works out of the box with your GPU as it did for Csaa.
You've rejected every suggestion we've made up to this point and, unfortunately, I've got nothing left. Good luck!
I'd say don't bother with VM. Note the the very beginning of that Github passhtrough tutorial. He uses two GPU's and mentions how you need two for good performance. Using one is possible but some very light googling reveals that the host might lose the video display entirely and then you need to do SSH or god knows what kind of shenanigans to get it back. Or you don't do passthrough and it'll be slow as molasses. Either way you're gonna have a horrible time. Surely this has to be the worst option for performance-hungry stuff like Daz Studio or Davinci Resolve.
All just because of no NVidia GPU? Just go get one. Don't know what the minimum requirements are but surely some used one will do. If that really is absolutely impossible then dual booting is the obvious choice. Native performance, easy to do with minimal effort, other than maybe having to mess around with boot loaders. If you ever get an Nvidia card you can try and get everything working on Linux and eventually ditch Windows completely. But it'll be there until then.
Not to mention, in terms "showing Microsoft" or whatever, a VM is just Windows again. Sure you can disable internet access, but you can do that in Windows too. Just disable the network connection. You'd more so be punishing yourself than Microsoft. They'll just laugh their ass off that you still need Windows inside of Linux.
Obviously they won't give a damn either way, but just to paint the picture of what you'd be doing with a VM
Here's a small thing thatt bothers me: when opening a scene in Daz Studio running through Lutris, as in File > Open, the size of that file dialog window isn't saved. And it's too small by default, cutting off columns. It's also all white.