Rocky Linux -- with DaVinci Resolve Install

[@EpicPCGeek]

You were the perfect person to deliver this type of content. As soon as I hear you speak its like ahhhhhh sit back, relax and learn.

[@notjustforhackers4252]

Oh look... a youtuber making a video about video editing on Linux who can 'read the side of the box'. No feet stomping, no deriding Linux ( for their own failure ) just great, knowledgeable well presented information. Good stuff Chris, I wish more were like you.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks for your kind feedback, most appreciated. :)

[@mal-avcisi9783]

I often wonder what the reason could be for installing a Linux desktop. It has absolutely no advantages. In the past, one could say that it was free, but nowadays a Windows license costs almost nothing as well. Essentially, a Linux desktop is completely pointless; it only brings stress from configuration issues and compatibility problems. A fresh installation might work reasonably well, but as soon as you start dealing with more complex tasks, everything can fall apart. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone to run a productive system on a Linux desktop unless you want to spend hours tinkering and troubleshooting. Sorry, but my life is too short to waste time on such hassle and nonsense. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.

[@borchen0]

​@@mal-avcisi9783Today one can still say it's free... One reason why people could use a Linux desktop, is because they do not like the direction Microsoft is going with Windows 11. For me personally Windows 10, which I have running on a dual-boot system with Fedora Linux, will probably be the last Windows I used, since I stopped playing games a while ago. My old mother uses Fedora on an old mini-pc, where everything just works out-of-the-box. The migration from Windows to Fedora, which I did, was surprisingly easy, since she already used Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird and LibreOffice on her slow Windows 10 laptop. The mini-pc she is using now is hardwarewise less powerfull than the Windows laptop, yet Fedora runs faster on it...

[@legojenn]

@@mal-avcisi9783 I agree with you in part. I've been using Linux for a quarter of a century with varying levels of intensity but only recently with Linux on the desktop. I'm not employed or in academia anymore. I supplement retirement income with coding and testing work. I use Mint on desktops and Debian on headless devices. Nothing is more frustrating than one piece of software being designed for one distribution and another for another and yet others that ignore Linux completely. Mint, due to its Debian and Ubuntu underpinnings does well with compatibility. What sells me on Linux is the anti-consumer attitudes of Apple and Microsoft. Apple software only runs on Apple hardware and the company has gone out of its way to sell irreparable and non-upgradeable hardware, leading to excess ewaste. Microsoft's conceit at ignoring user privacy and imposing non-removeable software that users neither want nor need, and ridiculous hardware requirements for Windows 11 make it unuseable. That leaves Linux. I won't use anything else. That being said, I work alone when I work and have decades of experience using it. I don't need software that does not run on Linux. I wouldn't recommend desktop Linux to someone who needs ongoing support. I've worked long enough and don't want a thankless unpaid job.

[@bookvee]

@@mal-avcisi9783 In my case, my computer is old but still functional, microft is about to smother windows 10 in its sleep with a ccarefully planned pillow, windows 11 wont work and also, linux tends not to try and send my data to anoyone. Also, also. I like penguins.

[@perrymcclusky4695]

Wow, really impressed with all the work you did. Definitely, that cup of tea was well deserved! Looking forward to your next video.

[@iandron7119]

Phew! Well done Chris for working this out. I admire your persistence. I'm not nearly as patient as you are!

[@danirichard470]

Thank you for compressing several days of effort, head scratching, test, and re-try into less than 30 mins of "How it is done!" Like much of software, it takes much effort of trial & error to get a working hardware / software system. Please continue your efforts. Your videos are an event I look forward to every week.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks for watching. :)

[@danirichard470]

@@ExplainingComputers Thank you for promoting Raspberry Pi. I have been a professional programmer since 1972. The Raspberry Pi taught me lot about Linux and ARM I didn't know.

[@giusdb]

In the partition setup you can do several things, - Create a single partition (no wasted space). - Delete the swap partition (use a swap file). - Use ext4 and not xfs, so you can increase and decrease the size of the partitions freely.

[@jb31842]

Relatedly, I've been a happy user of LVM for years

[@giusdb]

@jb31842 For a home user, lvm is more of a source of problems than a solution. If a filesystem does not allow resizing, lvm does not change that. lvm allows adding disks and partitions to enlarge an existing partition, but this also means you have more points of possible catastrophe (due to failure or carelessness).

[@richardwernst]

@@giusdb Not an expert, but agree that LVM for most people/desktop users has no advantage (that I know of), and adds a lot of complexity. EXT4 can easily be repartitioned/enlarged/shrunk, etc. on the fly without data loss via gparted. If there's some other advantage to LVM I'm not aware of, please do enlighten me.

[@giusdb]

​@@richardwernstTools are useful if they suit your use case and preferences. On one hand lvm allows you to easily assign free space to a '''partition''' to increase its size. On the other hand managing the assigned space without adding new disks is neither easy nor fast. It just depends on which side your use case and preferences fall.

[@richardwernst]

@@giusdb Maybe in a server situation that would be helpful, but with the price of storage, including solid state, just replacing the drives with larger and cloning over seems like an easier and less likely failure point (striping). Then again, servers would normally have dedicated redundant storage of some sort so adding/enlarging drive space wouldn't be an issue anyway. Or am I still missing something?

[@VeryUsMumblings]

I installed Rocky Linux and then watched the movie Rocky on Rocky Linux. Now every time I get an error, my computer shouts 'Adrian!' and then it says I have to do one-handed push-ups, run up stairs and eat raw eggs. I negotiated down to one push-up with two arms, one set of stairs and a hard-boiled eggs instead of raw. 😄 Great Video, as always! 👍

[@gadeane287]

You are the best at showing the step-by-step installations of Linux software. I'm about to be a Linux noob and I'll have your video running on my laptop while installing Linux (Mint). Bye bye Windows!

[@ExplainingComputers]

Good luck with Linux Mint. It is a great distro -- that I am typing in right now! :)

[@gadeane287]

@@ExplainingComputers Thanks!

[@richardwernst]

I still think Mint is the best distribution for most folks tired of the trend in subscription based computer use and lack of control the Microsoft/Windows world has moved to.

[@effwitt]

"bug-for-bug compatible" is the gold-standard for truth in advertising! Wouldn't it be great if every company told it like it is?

[@PC4USE1]

Wow stumbled on this early. Great video as usual.

[@maf939]

Although video editing isn't my field of interest, I really learned new things today from the video. No matter how much you know, there's always room for more. Thanks for the effort Professor.

[@Colin_Ames]

Great video, as always. I bet a Windows install wouldn’t have required this amount of hoop-jumping. It’s a perfect example of why lots of people won’t migrate to Linux.

[@esphilee]

Some people like to send their car to the 4S service centre for oil change, some like to do it themself, because it is do able, and they don't trust the dealers.. It is just preference. I think most people wouldn't call the car dealer their best friend, we all know they are oppotunist. Somehow, majority of people are not interested in getting their hands dirty maintaining their own car. But some do.

[@Maxtraxv3]

but it does.

[@Colin_Ames]

@@Maxtraxv3 I was talking about the DaVinci install, not Windows. As a test, I sat at my Windows 10 PC at 6:45 this evening, and by 6:54 I was running DaVinci. Downloaded, installed, rebooted Windows, launched the program, all in 9 minutes. As for Windows installs, I find them to be straight forward. Certainly no issues with Nvidia drivers, no command line stuff to deal with.

[@richardpalmanteer9798]

Thanks for another informative video, Chris. Kudos to all the work you did to get DaVinci Resolve installed on Rocky Linux. I hadn't heard of either of these was educational for me.

[@smada36]

It's another fantastic example of how Linux's greatest strength is also it's greatest weakness. I love Linux for being an intriguing puzzle to solve when you have a minute to spare, but quite often people don't have the time for a fight. Having said that, I remember a time when I to had to switch Windows PC's on an hour before I wanted to use them to give them time to do all their updates and sort themselves out before even attempting to be productive. I think that that was a very well earned cup of tea.

[@telquad1953]

I'm sending the link to this video to a good friend with whom I have discussed the chances of Linux displacing Windows in our lifetimes. With every respect to Chris and his wisdom, I hold this video as a prime example of why Linux will not worry Microsoft in this century. I should not have to explain why.

[@flemtone]

I'm glad to see there are guides on how to install DaVinci Resolve on Ubuntu/Debian too.

[@wanyman]

World is crazy but things are still a-ok since we have your weekly videos to see us through! Lovely video. I learned a ton! Thanks for your hard work!

[@Manian488]

Great stuff, I've been asking for this video for last 2 years :D

[@ExplainingComputers]

I got there in the end! Quite an adventure, but a positive one.

[@Grandwigg]

I really like how this was a coherent video on getting a specific software/OS-Distro combination working. It's a great example of a workflow that is a useful path to something that isn't always obvious at the start. (and an example of the versatility of a Linux system-even one I haven't used. ) It was a bit nostalgic seeing dnf used. I've not been in the RedHat way of doing things in a while yet. In college my instructor was using Scientific Linux for much of the introductory things, and I was running a Fedora USB stick install. I remember reading up on differences between yum and dnf and debating the risks of yet another distribution-upgrade verses a clean install. This was a great video.

[@richardwernst]

Excellent, thanks. All the extras, terminal commands, etc. brings back the days of RedHat 3.x when I first played with Linux a LONG time ago... :)

[@martinjones1390]

Couldn't Blackmagic Design issue Da Vinci Resolve as a flatpack to avoid dependency issues and allow it to be run on a range of Linux distros. That install of Rocky Linux looked to be a right faff.

[@mal-avcisi9783]

I often wonder what the reason could be for installing a Linux desktop. It has absolutely no advantages. In the past, one could say that it was free, but nowadays a Windows license costs almost nothing as well. Essentially, a Linux desktop is completely pointless; it only brings stress from configuration issues and compatibility problems. A fresh installation might work reasonably well, but as soon as you start dealing with more complex tasks, everything can fall apart. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone to run a productive system on a Linux desktop unless you want to spend hours tinkering and troubleshooting. Sorry, but my life is too short to waste time on such hassle and nonsense. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.

[@Thats_Mr_Random_Person_to_you]

Tbf to Blackmagic, most IT people hate flapaks (or other like psuedo-virtualisation/sandboxed envrionments) for a host of reasons, some ideological (ie hate it 'just cause') and others for some resonable reasons. Flatpaks/snaps (I know different but concepts are similar) use more RAM and can make it harder to interact with kernel level things. For a video editor/VFX/GFX tool the aim of the game is to squeeze as much performance out of the given hardware as possible. This involves a lot of detailed interlinking between low level kernel details / other low level hardware connections. Flatpaks in this case tend to add overheads that just hurt performance. Professional uses for such tools require as much performance as possible as every compute minute costs money. Equally, most high end Professional use cases are using enterprise storage systems (SAN or high performance distributed storage) so they are 'comfortable' with the REHL 'world' so if they have to put effort into supporting Windows, Mac, and 'Linux' it's easier for them to support just one distro, and the one that is closest to REHL is just a no-brainer.

[@SchoolforHackers]

@@mal-avcisi9783 We heard you the first time.

[@borchen0]

​@@Thats_Mr_Random_Person_to_youit's RHEL ; )

[@MrYungilike]

Ah, finally you're talking about Rocky Linux this time. I've some non-critical servers switched from CentOS 8 to Rocky in 2020, and so far I'm good with them. I really appreciate the effort they put on keep it bug-for-bug compatible with RHEL with the pressure coming from RH or maybe IBM. Hopefully, long live the Rocky Linux, as part of our Enterprise Linux options. I'm now even using Rocky 9 lxc containers in Debian bookworm since I'm really keen on the CentOS style config files. You don't have to learn too much new configs for new daemons in the new releases like other distros, you always know what you should do and what's gonna happen in a CentOS.

[@mhavock]

Anything RHLE should be shunned, Rocky is based on RHL. Red hat is owned by IBM since 2019. RHL developers have gone so far as to call the opensource community "freeloaders and leechs". Please use the other REAL opensource based Linux distributions. Also, the chart is very biased, why only use one source to say VFX industry is running Rocky? The majority of Linux users are Debian or Arch based distributions, that IS the REAL test.

[@MichaelMossmanNZ]

Thank you Christopher @ExplainingComputers for another enlightening video. I don't even use Rocky Linux or DaVinci Resolve, but I did enjoy the video in its entirety all-the-same. I like your style of presentation, and I appreciate your hard work in preparing for this video beforehand. It's refreshing to see someone thinking "outside the box" with regard to workarounds, etc. Keep up the good work. Regards =)

[@tonysheerness2427]

Reminds of linux twenty years ago where you had to jump through hoops to get things working.

[@darekols]

It seems that not that much changed

[@tonysheerness2427]

@@darekols It has take Ubuntu, it just works along with most apps.

[@tonysheerness2427]

@@darekols Yes you have the GEEK lot who love to have everything as difficult as possible to prove their loyalty to linux and the rest of us who want things just to work.

[@borchen0]

About 20 years ago I installed Linux on an AMD64 system; everything worked right out-of-the-box...in contrast to Windows where I had no sound and no network. I used Linux to download the drivers for that...it was a bit of an eye-opener.

[@waylonrichter1253]

Thanks Chris, I’m running mint on my daily thanks to your videos

[@ExplainingComputers]

This is great to hear. :)

[@wktodd]

"without them i would go insane.." You are not alone :-)

[@grayfox7306]

Great video. I can only say WOW. Installing DaVinci Resolve is a very convoluted process. The same as for Mint. I will run it on Windows until 10 expires. In the meantime I will explore other video editors that are Linux friendly. I really like DaVinci Resolve but there is a point where it becomes more burdensome to get it installed, up and running, and fixing after OS updates than it is worth. Thank you for your time in providing valuable information to us dummies. LOL Again Great job.

[@Oharafolk]

Thank you so much Chris for all the work you put into this video!

[@guildpilotone]

Chris - great work distilling the method to get Rocky/DaVinci working - truly impressive. Having said that, I must say that the state of the installation process combined with using an older version of Rocky is simply appalling. Imagine yourself as someone who wants the Pro version of DaVinci shelling out all that money (not counting the associated hardware costs) only to find such a convoluted, difficult, and time-consuming installation process. The "year of the Linux desktop" is a long way away as long as this kind of state of affairs persists.

[@lesliedeana5142]

Thank you so much for all the work that you put into this to get it demonstrable. But I'm not sure if I'd classify this as a 'supported distro' for this product, with all of the troubleshooting and fixing that you had to do to present this to the world. Granted you were able to get it to work, but I think at this point, you should be compensated from DaVinci as a Beta Developer! Granted I've gotten a little spoiled for things being much more a "Click and go", but MY customers wouldn't be happy or expected to do this level of work. Congrats on your dedication and professionalism to do this, sir!

[@ExplainingComputers]

Greetings Leslie.

[@mal-avcisi9783]

I often wonder what the reason could be for installing a Linux desktop. It has absolutely no advantages. In the past, one could say that it was free, but nowadays a Windows license costs almost nothing as well. Essentially, a Linux desktop is completely pointless; it only brings stress from configuration issues and compatibility problems. A fresh installation might work reasonably well, but as soon as you start dealing with more complex tasks, everything can fall apart. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone to run a productive system on a Linux desktop unless you want to spend hours tinkering and troubleshooting. Sorry, but my life is too short to waste time on such hassle and nonsense. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.

[@LeftoverBeefcake]

@@mal-avcisi9783 You're gonna tell me Windows doesn't have configuration issues and compatibility problems? But then again I shouldn't be feeding the trolls, considering this same comment appears further down in replies to other commenters...

[@sumduma55]

​@@LeftoverBeefcakeI was going to mention thr cut and paste aspect of his replies to numerous others. Perhaps he's just lonely and wanting to talk to someone- he has been interacting with a few. Linux has always had issues with dependencies. I think Mandrake or Mandriva linux had thr bedt solutions with their packages though. Windows has had them on the past too (dll hell comes to mind). Most of those were weeded out by Windows XP days. But that was largely because they changed how the code runs. The majority of it runs through the windows subsystem making windows api calls whereas Linux allows direct execution for the most part.

[@cheeseschrist2303]

@@spx2327 who are you replying to?

[@pixelrancher]

Love DaVinci Resolve. Even their free tier of their software is amazingly good. ( ... but purchase the Studio version. You won't be disappointed)

[@ExplainingComputers]

Agreed!

[@XSpImmaLion]

Rough, but at least it's getting there, and there is a viable path... This is still at a stage that I'd worry about things breaking up on every update in every single component of this math, but at least there is a kinda official route. Needs a bit more cleaning up though... particularly now that they already have a route for long term support. Thanks Chris, great video as always! If I decide to separate a computer for production alone, this is the tutorial I'll be watching to make the thing work. xD

[@jinty83]

Thanks for another fantastic video Chris. It's a shame that Resolve is a bit of a faff to get working in Linux but at least it actually works using this method. Your demonstration is top class as usual.

[@johncundiff7075]

Just got home from another weekend gig out of town!! Finally getting to sit down and watch!!!

[@chrismorgan441]

Interesting video. I hope that Rocky Linux proves useful to you, and I'm looking forward to further updates. Thanks, Chris.

[@htcmini4221]

The G.O.A.T has dropped another one.

[@johnnyquattro]

The G.O.A.T. has indeed dropped another one

[@richardwernst]

Sorry, "goat"?

[@guildedpickle4755]

greatest of all time

[@dewtain1363]

Oh Linux, I remember having to take so many steps to install something in the early 2000's 😅. Love the video, very clear.

[@Kw1161]

Thanks Chris for doing the hard work for us not good Linux guru’s. Great to see the end result is worth the pain of the install process glitches…😊! Have a great week!

[@customlandscapephotography]

Thank you so much I installed and am so happy. This is my favorite channel.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Great to hear!

[@shawnvines2514]

Wonderful video, while I'm not using DaVinci, this solution you presented gives me hope I can use this method to resolve an issue I'm having with Rocky / Nvidia drivers / CUDA. Extremely detailed and useful information. Thank you.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Good luck. What I showed should leave you with a supported Rocky Linux with all of the latest NVIDIA and CUDA drivers needed for other applications too. DaVinci Resolve is very, very picky (in Windows as well as Linux), about the NVIDIA and CUDA setup -- so if it runs, other packages ought to be OK. Just don't try upgrading the Rocky 9! :)

[@unclemil]

Thanks for the guide. I am running Resolve without issues on the latest Fedora Workstation. Only had to work around minor startup trouble to get Reactor to work. It is well documented on the WSL community forums. Rocky/RHEL/Alma being essentially the current vfxplatform, your recommendation makes absolute sense, especially if you have a lot of professional applications that need to be compatible without messing around. Cheers.

[@ninline2000]

Reminds me of the old days. I started with SUSE Linux by buying a boxed set in 2000 from Best Buy. It had very nice manuals and I had some CLI experience from using the shell in Amiga OS on my Amiga A3000 but there was a lot of research at times dealing with unsupported hardware.

[@leonidd00]

Indeed a very interesting journey you went trough Christopher. Although I am not content creator o video editor, but everyday linux user, it would be interesting to hear from you about this topic in the future. Thank you for this video!

[@ewenchan1239]

Excellent video!!! I loved your video about Nobara Linux, BTW. That was really quick and relatively pain-free to get DaVinci Resolve working in Linux. Thank you.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Greetings! The install in Nobara is indeed far less painful! :)

[@martinsmith5028]

Many thanks Chris. It was a comprehensive walkthrough. Strange you had to use a file that was two years out of support. Have fun!

[@xmlthegreat]

It is fascinating to see how much work it is to get it to work in a RHEL environment. I've been using Resolve occasionally on a Ubuntu system for a year without issues and the install was nearly painless.

[@max9111]

The issues you experienced while installing NVIDIA drivers on Rocky Linux are actually quite common on Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 as well. Although the initial installation process is straightforward, the NVIDIA drivers available-even for 24.04-are often outdated. Installing the latest drivers from the Ubuntu repository typically doesn’t work; you have to get them directly from NVIDIA. For anyone doing CUDA development, things get even messier. I faced the same problems on MX Linux and Pop!_OS, which are based on Debian and Ubuntu, respectively. Life with CUDA can be a real headache 😅😅. Anyway, thanks for your excellent video!

[@danielpetre3574]

a new wonderful video. Thanks from Romania.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Greetings from the UK. :)

[@liontuga155]

Nicely done, Chris! For some reason, when Resolve’s splash screen finally appeared, I started hearing “Eye of the tiger” playing in my mind... 😅

[@slomotrainwreck]

This video is one of the reasons why I put up with KZbin's shenanigans, thanks Chris for making it. 👍

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks for watching. :)

[@dvdvnr]

Fantastic, Chris. Many thanks for showing us how to get all this set up properly. This is video has gone straight into my Saved list as I will be investigating this myself soon. Now, if only you could get the Affinity Suite working on the same system, that would be enough for me to ditch Windows completely as I really don't want to have to upgrade my one remaining Windows install (currently on 10) to Windows 11 because of all the issues people are having with 24H2!

[@ArchLars]

Thanks for doing a Rocky Linux tutorial, not a lot of them for it.

[@shamrock1961]

Rocky is not my cup of tea and I'll just give you a thumbs up for putting together a "solid" video on a very "runny" Linux Distro! 🙂

[@Pallidus_Rider]

The video I have been waiting for!!

[@ExplainingComputers]

This great to hear! :)

[@andrina118]

I started Linux with Red Hat 6.0, with a book bought randomly in a discount bookshop

[@mikiethebikie]

Chris, I need a lie down after this. Thanks for taking the time to persist with this.

[@DarrenMossAU]

Great video Chris! Rocky Linux has been a game changer after the CentOS dramas. I've always faced issues trying to run DaVinci - for me it's been unstable and of course crashes at the most inconvenient time, so I ended up moving to kdenlive (which is also not without it's challenges). Good to see potential for DaVinci to actually run properly on Rocky, I'm going to give this a try and see how it goes.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Good luck! :)

[@nickraphael5382]

Thank you, Chris. Great as always.

[@Innocentdarkness72]

Very very good video !!! nice sunday all..... installed it on pop_os nvidia... works in 3min ! but rocky is much stabler !!

[@mikemacdonald2094]

This is one of those projects that I've looked in to doing but only make it so far before I have to move on to other things. A nice to have. But with your tutorial which is like your other tutorials in that it's complete with all the steps, I'll have a fighting chance next time. Thanks for putting this together. I'll be coming back to it soon.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Good luck! :)

[@andic6676]

Love your videos Chris

[@DanOTaylor]

This is great. I am looking at Linux OS for my next AMD build (with Nvidia GPU), and I primarily use Davinci Resolve. This looked like I never would have figured this out on my own. i wil definitely be coming back to this in the future

[@arxaaron]

Excellent tutorial!! Thank you so much for the perseverance in finding the installation challenges and showing how to overcome them. You've raised my confidence level for migrating my media production to Linux by at least 3 orders of magnitude! You are AWESOME, (and Linux is too)! ☺❤

[@richard_wenner]

Well done. Still today all of this faffing around is vital - so thanks for your vital help.

[@zaidisphotographers]

Thank you so much. I installed it successfully. One thing to mention here is that Rufus doesn't work , I didn't check etcher. I made iso USB via command line in my linux mint terminal. So, the installation destination showed media. 🎉. As my Windows 11 is also on the same pc so I pulled all power cables from other Hard-Disks as well during the installation on an nvme separately.

[@ddummer]

Manually installing things is one of the reasons I use Linux.. and yes.. I am win95 years old... :)

[@C-MAGs]

This is exactly the type of Linux video that keeps people on Windows. What a palava! Sheesh.

[@markwiehenstroer2831]

I now think I know why it's called Rocky Linux and not Smooth Linux or the like. Your excellent video gives me much appreciation for Linux Mint, Zorin, etc. which just works out of the box without much necessity for the terminal although the terminal is handy and fast. Also, I think it's just a matter of time, as Rocky Linux matures, that it will be easier to set up and use.

[@LonerCycle]

I've had the best luck running Resolve on Linux using an Arch based distro and installing from the AUR. Not to say thats its easy and it always works, rather for me, it been the path with the least pain.

[@mcconkeyb]

Good tutorial. Now if only we could get a common Linux app interface that runs on all the distro's, then maybe Linux would be a worthy competitor to MS Windows.

[@Martin4982]

Great Video Chris.... Although I don't use DaVinci, Rocky still looks over complicated for me, that's why I still enjoy using Linux Mint LMDE that's far easier for my knowledge...

[@Praxibetel-Ix]

A little contribution to the tea fund. :)

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks!

[@Praxibetel-Ix]

@ExplainingComputers You're welcome!

[@alanturner1184]

Interesting content as always Thank you

[@josemanuelsenoransrodrigue9102]

Thanks for this new and as always interesting, video.

[@theshowmanuk]

Great video ! Thanks for all your effort.

[@stephenhargreaves9011]

And I have to say, wow. Only halfway through and you hit the first "kill my stuff" bug, being that the automatic installation will destroy your data. I know that you like simplicity, and as I posted on the member page, DaVinci works just fine on Arch Linux. Whilst Arch needs more work to install, the wiki is excellent, and I'd love to see you give it a go to get, now only an Arch install, but one with DaVinvi working (spoiler alert - DaVinci is extremely easy to install, using Nvidia drivers, once you have the base system. In fact, once you get to a desktop (of your choice - nothing pre configured), getting anything working is extremely easy. Arch has a bad reputation that is wholly undeserved. Once it's installed, it's very easy, and rock solid. There are even graphical package managers available, which means you can avoid the command line, if you absolutely must. Mind you, here's another idea. Why avoiding the command line in Linux costs you time, and why it's not as scary as people think. EDIT: Is the xorg.conf file still necessary? I've been running without one for more than 3 years, with no problems.

[@davidgoodnow269]

"Once it is installed . . . " which is why my experiment with using Arch Linux is awaiting my lazy @$$ getting my laser printer working cleanly and reliably! Print and bind everything I need to reference in advance, to minimize swapping drives so that I can look things up . . . and print them for use! I printed the kernel man in 2001 to optimize and compile for SMP and sound. That was easier than just getting Arch installed!

[@stephenhargreaves9011]

@@davidgoodnow269 Printers in Linux are not exclusively an "Arch" problem. Personally, I paid for turboprint. which makes things a lot easier.

[@PS_Tube]

Greetings Chris. First time I've seeing someone making a video to install a video editor on a "server grade distro". PS: Have a wonderful week ahead.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Greetings! This is why I included the info at the start of the video about Rocky being the only supported distro for Resolve (and indeed for Maya, and only one of a few for Nuke, Autograph, etc). Whilst many think of Rocky as a server distro, as the report I cited demonstrates, CentOS/Rocky are the dominant distros for VFX Linux workstations.

[@rxmas7234]

Thank you for this. I'm ready to give it a try.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Good luck! :)

[@WilReid]

That's absolutely insane. There has to be a less convoluted way to get NVidia drivers working on a fresh install of the latest version of simply the version you want/need to run. I haven't owned an NVidia card in years, but apparently things haven't improved in the least in the last 15 years. Neither side is willing to budge to make things work better for the end user.

[@JamaicaWhiteMan]

Excellent, thanks! Going to dl it shortly. I have Mint 22 now on a PCIe SSD, and will put Rocky on a separate HDD drive to boot from (I have six drives - two PCIe SSD's and four SATA HDD's).

[@ShinyHelmet]

It's definitely a Rocky road to get things done on that distro! One variety of Linux that I wont be hopping on to anytime soon! 😆

[@theoriginalrecycler]

Excellent Chris.

[@MrPage62]

This video was enough to make me stick with Kdenlive! 😁

[@ExplainingComputers]

Certainly easier to get working! :)

[@kyledross]

Wow, that was painful. I'd have to really want to use DaVinci Resolve in order to subject myself to that rigmarole. This makes me appreciate my Ubuntu workstation even more.

[@schlickit628]

Even by Linux standards this is really bad… cheers for sharing this effort!

[@blackstar_1069]

Beautiful video sir 🤘😻

[@gil_L]

Thank you for making this video! I used the 8.10 installer from Rocky and found the nvidia drivers on the Rocky forum. It was two commands I think to install in terminal. Very straight forward. I tried 9.4 but reverted to 8.10 as it just seemed more stable to me. I’ve been using this on a test machine for the last 6 months. I rarely ever run into any issues and with flatpaks enabled, snaps enabled, and app images everything is working perfectly. I’ve stopped distro hopping. I can also confirm Nuke 15 is working very well on it. It does require some manual installations but once everything is set up you don’t have to worry about things breaking. I’m curious what you decide. It’s either Ubuntu or Rocky for me when I switch my workstation from windows 10 but I’m leaning more Rocky.

[@ExplainingComputers]

This is really interesting, thanks for posting. Good to hear about Nuke working (I assumed that a setup working for Resolve would be OK for other packages, but have not tested). I think we share the view that spending time on the setup is OK if the end result takes away the worry of things not working in the future. I really don't want to run important software on a non-supported distro. I wish Blackmagic Design officially supported Ubuntu. But given the dominance of CentOS/Rocky in the VFX marketplace, I can understand why they don't. I too am right now leaning towards Rocky, potentially with a Cinnamon or KDE Plasma desktop.

[@PeterEdin]

What a lot of work and faffing needed just to get to where you want and that's before Da Vinci Resolve. This is what puts me off exploring Linux which us a pity because I am going off Windows.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Not all Linux are the same. Distros like Linux Mint, Ubuntu and Zorin OS are much more end-user focused. But a distro like Rocky is something else entirely. This said, getting DaVinci Resolve installed and working isn't that easy on any distro -- although there are third-party install scripts for some distros, such as Ubuntu and Linux Mint.

[@PeterEdin]

@ExplainingComputers Thank you Chris 😀

[@IEnjoyCreatingVideos]

Good video Chris! Thank you for always sharing with us!💖👍😎JP

[@essetee]

I run linux since 1995 and I don't care that the linux desktop will never be mainstream, but this is more fun than doubleclick a file to install everything.

[@anonymouse527]

For me, that's like having to figure out which valve is misfiring, balancing the wheels, filling up all fluids like coolant and transmission, etc. I'd rather just jump into my car and drive.

[@wvladimir21]

Thus is a great video fot two points, the first it show you tha can be done on linux, but the second point it show how complex and difficult it result to migrate to linux, windows just download and install, linux sadly you need to do a mental gymnastic to install, but in the end great video

[@g-r-a-e-m-e-]

I appreciate the video, as always, but could not face this!

[@chesterhackenbush]

Pure genius.

[@bqgin]

Thank you very much. You sir, went through so much work so we dont have to.

[@jamesprocter102]

Great job. I learned a lot.

[@AMDRADEONRUBY]

Very interesting thanks have a nice week

[@BWGPEI]

Indeed, very soon suits me very well because to teach so superbly.

[@danielpicassomunoz2752]

If i remember correctly, Da Vinci Resolve has its own rocky -derived distro with the software preinstalled

[@ExplainingComputers]

What I show in the video is the use of the Blackmagic Design Rocky image, which I then upgrade (so it is supported, and to have fully-working NVIDIA drivers). The Blackmagic Design Rocky image does not have DaVinci Resolve pre-installed.

[@ExplainingComputers]

In the video I use the Rocky Linux Image supplied by Blackmagic Design. It does not have DaVinci Resolve preinstalled. And it needs to be upgraded to be supported, and to have newer NVIVIDA drivers added, and a package added, for an install to work properly.

[@Praxibetel-Ix]

Rocky Linux, huh? When are we getting Bullwinkle Linux?

[@AraceaeFanatics]

Ha!

[@Praxibetel-Ix]

​@@AraceaeFanaticsI'll be here all morning/afternoon! 😅

[@pixelrancher]

@@Praxibetel-Ix Remember to tip the waitstaff.

[@klaxoncow]

The real question is can Rocky Linux defeat Apollo Creed in the ring? He loses in the first movie, you know.

[@zg-it]

My dad's name is Rocky. He's terrible w computers. I should put this on a laptop for him!

[@alittlepeaceandkarma]

I've just ordered the new The Spectrum. I always wanted one as a kid, but I got a ZX81 followed by a C16. Now 40 years later I've bought the reboot. Hopefully it's easier to set up than this 😂

[@ExplainingComputers]

I have pondered over getting the new Spectrum. It does look nice.