Substance Painter

So I just reinstalled Substance Painter (2019.2.x-something) and this time I downloaded an archived Linux version, because Proton's giving me issues running the Windows version (I've never actually run the native Linux version until now)

(some context: I run Kubuntu 25.04 on my main device and used to always use Proton to run the Windows version of Substance Painter, because I had the Windows version installed on Windows, and just... copied over the files.

I managed to find my license.key file somewhere in AppData and was luckily able to activate it with that, because for some stupid reason Adobe shut down the old licensing servers/downloads/etc. after they bought it, so I either have to use that file or crack it)

Anyway for some reason it's way faster than the Windows one ever was on Windows?? I have no idea why, I would assume they probably targeted Windows first and optimized for that.

maybe I'll think of something to texture