Running a Windows 10/11 VM through KVM/QEMU (with GPU passthrough) allows DAZ to see the hardware natively. This offers near-native performance and eliminates the weird bugs associated with Wine. However, setting up GPU passthrough is a complex technical hurdle that requires specific hardware support (IOMMU groups) and a solid understanding of the Linux kernel.

For the Linux user, performance falls into two categories:

| OS | GPU | Render Time (1920x1080, 500 iterations) | |----|-----|------------------------------------------| | Windows 11 | RTX 4080 | 1m 42s | | Ubuntu 22.04 (Wine 9.0) | RTX 4080 | 1m 58s (+16% slower) | | Arch (Proton 8.0) | RTX 4080 | 2m 11s (+28% slower) |