I don’t know where to ask. I feel stressed out about this when I look around.
I am sorry you feel that way 
Try r/linux4noobs, if you’re okay with reddit. Or I dunno, ask an LLM-system, this should be an easy enough query…
I’m also on KDE Plasma (archlinux). I didn’t use an .sh file I used a .desktop file and I suggest you do the same (look for my other comment here(link) )
I register the mime type using these commands:
# always refresh the desktop database
update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications
# then register the mime type for svs2
xdg-mime default wine-protocol-dreamtonics-svstudio2.desktop x-scheme-handler/dreamtonics-svstudio2
# and also for this one just in case
xdg-mime default wine-extension-svp.desktop application/x-wine-extension-svp
# then refresh again just to be sure
update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications
Then as the last step do a WINEPREFIX=<your prefix> winetricks -q win7 to make sure your wine prefix is windows 7 before opening SynthV.
Now you can open synth v and login and download voices.
This explanation covers the last steps only, so you should still do the previous steps as explained extensively on this forum.
(btw, wine tends to override your .desktop files… so make sure to be constantly checking that your custom .desktop file stays with your modifications, be very cautious with that -only during the login process after you login successfully you can forget about the .desktop file)
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Where should I find this .desktop file?
I did not find a .desktop file with that name.
do you know where I might find somebody talking about this for ubuntu?
I don’t think the distro matter all that much for this. I think these steps are universal to most distros: Consider supporting Linux for Synthesizer V Studio 2 - #66 by burtbort
“Where should I find this .desktop file?”
The easy response is: ~/.local/share/applications but that depends on how you installed wine… if you installed wine using flatpak or bottles or litrus, etc, then the location of the *.desktop files might vary but that information is available online. The file should exists 100%, you need to find it.
“I did not find a .desktop file with that name.“
As last resort, create it your self inside this location: ~/.local/share/applications and then refresh the desktop database as I explained before. But I don’t guarantee this would work because “bottles“ might just prioritize *.desktop files from their own locations, I don’t know.
I did my own setup by just installing wine directly without bothering about bottles and what not. I followed the steps from the link above and I recommend you do the same, the only thing I changed was that I used a *.desktop file instead of a script. Is more natural for a browser to open programs using desktop files instead of script. A desktop file is the thing that tells other programs (like your browser) how to open X application (like synthv).
Alright, I’m working from a .desktop file now. It’s been a while, where do I find my wineprefix (and, as well, where do I place my .desktop since it was installed as a flatpak and I can’t find the flatpak folder in Kubuntu)
You should at least investigate what a wineprefix is. By default every windows program you install throught wine will be located inside the folder ~/.wine unless you somehow changed your this wineprefix. I don’t know what the behavior is in the case of flatpak or bottles or lutris… I just installed wine directly.
I don’t feel you want to put any effort on your own and just want to be given the steps to follow like this is Windows when is not. Believe me this stuff is not that difficult or scary.
The steps were already shared on this forum. You just need to google or ask chatgpt for your specific use-cases and questions.
I will not continue answering here.
Alright, I understand. I’ll hack at this at a later time. Currently having an error regarding “xdg-mime default wine-extension-svp.desktop application/x-wine-extension-svp”
”qtpaths: not found”
Perhaps we should take this discussion back on track. All I read recently are more or less promising clues how to install and run SynthV 2 under Wine. This is a far cry from a genuine linux support by the manufacturer, and some of the users might already have noticed that each update involves the risk of a configuration which works up until then going down the drain. Setting aside the performance loss that comes with an unnecessary emulator layer under a software optimised for another OS.
I am periodically checking if Dreamtonics show any sign of reassessment but fail to see any. So I am steadily losing interest in this software. As the German saying goes “Other parents have beautiful daughters, too”.
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Any updates on that?
No updates? That’s unfortunate.
Another Linux user hoping relentlessly that Linux support is introduced for V2.
I’ve tried Wine of course, too much difficult, stuck on the white view.
But… through Audio Gridder, Linux REAPER is able to use Synth V Studio 2 hosted on a Windows VM. A bit tricky, but much more reliable than Wine, less overhead, and fully working (No ARA though).
I can have Synth V on tracks, synced to the REAPER project, playing together with the arrangement or soloed (using the plugin GUI directly from the VM so no need for GUI transfer to REAPER).
Far from being optimal, but seemingly workable… 
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why not just run synthv directly in a vm?
I use REAPER in Linux as main DAW, and I compose lyrics and melody often together with the arrangement. Running SynthV alone in a Win VM defeats all of this, so to speak. I need to be able to work simultaneously on vocals and arrangement.
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Hey, not to necro this on you, but can you show me how you achieved this? linux newbie here on bazzite and I’m struggling to get past the authentication part, even using a native chrome instance
Oops, back in January I re-posted mitori’s Youtube video above, not realizing. I don’t think all of the earliest posts in this thread populated for me the first time I looked at it.
I see I wasn’t the only one who ran in to extra trouble with the web browser login steps. I had success with a solution I hadn’t seen elsewhere. I was able to circumvent the browser login issues by adding the winhttp dependency to my synthv2 bottle and using the pre-installed MS Edge browser within the bottle (msedge.exe, the one in */bottles/SynthV2/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft/EdgeCore/109.0.1518.78). I launched SynthV2, clicked “log in”, let it fail to load the page in my Linux default browser (Firefox), then copied the URL it generated and pasted it in to the bottled MS Edge. Edge was able to successfully and automatically transmit the login data back to SynthV2 without any additional steps!
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Did qtpaths come preinstalled with your distribution? As well, I got this as my .desktop file, but after the system handler is invoked, I’m not logged in:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/dreamtonics-svstudio2;
Exec=env WINEPREFIX=“[homefolder]/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles/synthv/ /[homefolder].var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/runners/soda-9.0-1/bin/wine” wine C:\\ProgramData\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start\ Menu\\Programs\\Synthesizer\ V\ Studio\ 2\ Pro\\Synthesizer\ V\ Studio\ 2\ Pro.lnk %u
NoDisplay=true
StartupNotify=true
Icon=9D36_synthv-studio.0
This might be because the wine path is, in this context wrong (The unquoted path). I use bottles, and bottles lets you link to applications within your system itself rather than the virtualized filesystem of regular wine.
Nevermind. I genuinely don’t know what’s going wrong. I attempt to do the log-in prompt and it just doesn’t respond, no log-in after that.
Life is short. Why spend all that time trying to use Linux where there is such a thing as the Mac OS?