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Hi!! I was originally going to do a video guide but I hate talking, so here's a little guide on how to get CSP working on linux! This has been tested on Ubuntu Linux Mint 22.2 and should work on all other Debian and Ubuntu distros.

First, install wine. You can do that by typing " sudo apt install wine " in the terminal. That should work best, but if it doesn't, try following this official guide: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Debian-Ubuntu . If the last command doesn't work, use the command " sudo apt install --install-recommends wine-stable " instead.

Go into file manager, right click, and select "Show Hidden files". You should now see the .wine folder in home. Go into it, and create an Executables folder within the drive c folder.

Download Clip Studio Paint from Celsys (https://ec.clip-studio.com/en-us/open-clip-studio?paintVersion=3). The installer will appear in your Downloads folder; place it in the Executables folder you created.

In the terminal, type " winecfg ". Select "Add application..." and open the Clip Studio installer. Next to "Windows Version:" Select "Windows 8.1" and click Apply. Press OK to exit winecfg.

In your Executables folder, right click the Clip Studio installer, and select "Open With Other Application...". Type " wine " at the bottom, select "Set As Default Application" and click OK.

The installer should run like normal. All of Clip Studio's files will be copied to wine's Program Files folder in wine's drive c folder.

Clip Studio will make a desktop shortcut. Double click it, and it should now run like normal.

This method is dysfunctional!! This one if working better for me:

Install bottles by typing this into the terminal: " flatpak install com.usebottles.bottles.flatpakref ". Then, run bottles. " flatpak run com.usebottles.bottles "

Next, you're going to want to open Bottles, click the + symbol to create a bottle, choose application, name it CLIPStudio (or similar), then click Create.

After it creates the bottle, open it and then go into Settings, in Runner choose sys-wine-9.0 or sys-wine-10.0, then scroll down to Compatibility and choose Windows 8.1.

Then exit out of Settings and go into Dependencies, you will need the following dependencies: dotnet472, d3dcompiler_47, gdiplus, vcredist2015, vcredist2019, cjkfonts . If you run into an issue, you can also download these from Microsoft's site.

Download the Clip Studio installer, and run the executable in bottles. It should work normally.

After Clip Studio installs, it should appear on your bottle automatically. Run Clip Studio from the bottle, and use it as usual!

With the previous method, Clip Studio was unreliable in whether it'd properly boot. This method fixes that. Although, the cloud and may not work, and you may not be able to download new assets. You can still add assets that aren't from Clip Studio. A possible workaround for the asset issue is to dualboot windows, use windows in a VM (add an extension that allows the VM to read and write to a USB), or use a phone to download the assets then transfer those files to your PC locally.

To backup your assets, go to the Gear icon and click "Location of Materials", then choose a directory to copy those materials as a backup. To get these files into the Bottle we just made, you will see the repository for the Materials is noted as "C:\users\username\Documents\CELSYS\CLIPStudioCommon". Under Bottles, this will be located in /home/username/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles/CLIPStudio/drive_c/users/username/AppData/Roaming/CELSYSUserData/CELSYS/CLIPStudioCommon . Just copy the backup CLIPStudioCommon folder you copied to the location of the folder in the Bottles repository, then overwrite it all. After that, it should transfer completely. Unfortunately, local transfers are the only possible way to backup assets.

Thank you for another great pride month with Hatsune Miku!