Well at least we have alternative for maya= blender ,premier = davinci resolve,about Photoshop yeah there no same level powerful tools the closest I used is krita.
I am using thinkpad t430 with 8 gig of ram ,with virt-manager and qemu and have installed windows 10 with after script to delete all bloatware to make system more snappy and more responding u can easily USB pass through I phones in there for iTunes,for accessing just file on iPhone u can use ifuse
Preventing in any way to make work modern firmware for any modern devices which dynamically loading from ur disk ,and prevent installing closed source software too ,they blocked even electron framework need to work for software like freetube for example.
We really cannot rely on aosp because while google in control of source code and not take any contribution to code we have in relastic case "u permitted to read code and clone " and back feedback and as result we will have aosp as google wish it only for their own profits and theirs views how they see it.I am not even talking that they not use any enforce policy that manufactures cannot lock bootloader without ability to unlock
I was having same problem game itself weird behaving on gamepads ,so only adding game to steam as non steam game and from launching from there helped me.
That doesn't make much sense for me,cause modern ads on website for it's literally information violence and that so make ads idea useless for marketers
Personally when I even using I don't give them a penny ,always pirate edition and btw it's possible to run Photoshop cs6 through wine.