I could think of at least 5 distros I would recommend switching to from Windows before Rocky Linux. Nothing against Rocky. But its focus is more a server side. I would direct you to a Linux Mint. Or an Ubuntu. If you wanna stay in the Red Hat family for some reason, Fedora might be better for your use case. Or an Oreon if you wanna stay more stable. They are more desktop focused distros in the Red Hat family in my opinion. Just some suggestions. I tend to steer more people to the Debian family of distros lately though.
"I tend to steer more people to the Debian family of distros lately though." I'm curious about this. Because of better stability/ease of use/business-readiness/support/...?
@@heidbrink_dev You could get Tuxcare on any distro. But if we are talking enterprise level support, I might steer them towards an Ubuntu. Personally at home I use Linux Mint 22 on my desktops. LMDE on my servers (very specific use case. I got wifi dongles. And long story short, LMDE was the best way I could get as Vanilla a Debian experience with Btrfs support.). And vanilla Debian on my VMs. If i needed that kind of support, I would consider either Tuxcare or Ubuntu Pro. To stay in the Debian family.
Hey mate, see you've gotten a little bit of struggles, I understood you considered Manjaro, which I would 100% not use, a arch base for a beginner is not good, and you can easily break ur system if you don't know what your doing. As someone who started on linux with no idea on how it worked, heres a few tips I'd suggest. 1. Use either Linux Mint or PopOS (which ever the one you like the look of better) They both come with nvidia drivers pre installed and working. Then I'd try playing around with the terminal a little, learn basic things like creating, managing, deleting files, installing programs, deleting programs, updating etc. Then I'd try something a little more complex in a VM like installing Arch linux following a tutorial, this will teach you how linux works. Then once you feel confident I'd suggest switching to one of these distros: Arch (OR cachy if gaming/preformance out of the box is a priority) Gentoo (If you like compling your programs) NixOS (If you want to replicate your system) These will teach you alot about linux and I'd suggest giving them a try. Hope you enjoy your linux journey.
I installed Linux Mint on my brother's PC, and it was a smooth experience indeed. I've specifically wanted to not use any "poweruser" features of linux like the terminal, and it worked basically out of the box.
I would suggest you to go with fedora/nobara instead of rocky. There is a perl command (which I use) to unlock davinci studio on linux and use h.264 happily. But you will still not able to use aac
I presume you store your raw footage on a shared drive/NAS/similar solution? If not, did you set up a shared partition to be able to access files regardless of which OS you boot into?
@@heidbrink_dev I've got an SSD where I installed Fedora, another SSD dedicated to Windows (so my dual boot is on separate SSDs). And to store my files, I use an external HDD, (formatted) in NTFS. I've been thinking about getting a NAS, but I'm still thinking about it, since I only use it on my desktop PC, so I'm not sure it's really worth the investment, plus I'm not running out of storage just yet. It's not the fastest way to edit my media, but it gets the work done.
Funny that you say that because you're correct at the consumer / prosumer levels. But at the same time, in the big studios for the most part, they use Linux. For example, I heard DreamWorks is 100% Linux. And I know from experience that a bunch of other post-production houses use Resolve with $30,000 controllers in Linux boxes, specifically using Rocky Linux, now that CentOS was discontinued
I tried Ubuntu Studio 22.04 on a Z840 with Nvidia 1080ti and an old atto raid controller. Resolve and all the included software work smoothly but I'm not sure about recording and codec part because I don't have a capture card.
I tried Rocky Linux for several months but I broke the system too many times. Also had strange issues running out of disk space even though I had plenty of free space. Nvidia drivers hard to install. I found it too hard.
Interesting. Did it break during/after installing upgrades? Or just randomly? Just a hunch, but could running out of disk space be due to the default LVM configuration (which doesn't allocate 100% of your physical volume per default if I remember correctly)?
@@DARvlogs I figured out my problem. Dont use the default partitioning when installing Rocky Linux. The default settings will cause the home partition to quick run out of space. You can use the default settings as a template that you go in an adjust to be more suitable. The default was making '/' only 70G. I learned my lesson and Im back using Rocky Linux
Good point. It was working with X11 when following the official documentation. If you want to be strict and expect Wayland to work out of the box as well, then Rocky would've been disqualified. Yes.
Because it was one of the distributions on which all of the apps I've tested worked, I prefer RHEL-based to Debian-based, and DVR specifically lists Rocky Linux as supported.
@@heidbrink_dev I would strongly recommend using something like Fedora (there's a KDE spin available) or something based on it like Nobara if you're really set on using something in the RHEL family. I also really recommend enabling the RPM Fusion repositories if you do use Fedora to make your life much easier, which among other things allows you to download the Nvidia drivers straight from the package manager. The issue with distros like Rocky/Debian/RHEL is that your software selection will be much more limited out of the box, and you'll be running significantly older packages and an older kernel (I'm only guessing here, but that might explain your Wayland problems too). They're made for people who want a stable, unchanging system for a long time, which is why they describe themselves as enterprise operating systems.
@@heidbrink_dev Agree with you. The same to me. I cannot scan on Debian or in distros with Debian base (HP Deskjet Advantage). They have something called "air-scan" that is meant to work with the scanner with no drives. The thing don't wok for me and I install all packages (Sane, xsane, hplip, etc..). My scanner only works "out of the box" on Opensuse or Rocky....By my lights Linux is, in fact, a software for servers; some people can manage Linux to be a desktop software, but at some cost. Last but not least, I don't belive in rolling distros because udates and upgrades can cause troubles to the system. Best wishes...
Rocky linux isn't reallt meant for desktop use, its probabaly better for servers and for people who know what they are doing In your place, I wouod go with something thats 1. Made for desktop use 2. Does not have outdated packages 3. Has a community aroud it 4. Its not a fork of a fork of a fork So, just try Fedora
Fedora KDE would have been my first choice if DVR had worked out of the box. I've heard people advise caution with RedHat distributions, do you see any issues in that regard? As far as I could understand, they base their concerns on previous licensing decisions RedHat has made.
Well, I am not completely sure about DVR working or not, but just doing some quick research on Reddit I found a lot of guides of making it work, with some low effort put into it As for the other topic, the open-source community is weird, they make everything seem much bigger than it is, for example there was a case not long ago Fedora wanting to introduce some data collection, first, this data collection feature could be turned off during installation ON IT'S OWN separate window with one button click, and the data collection itself is fully open source, fully anonymous, and all that, and even with all these the community acted like if Fedora would have put a backdoor for the NSA secretly inside their OS So, what I wanted to say is, just don't listen to the community when it comes to these type of topics, a lot of people take things too far for too little reasons I am using Fedora since years, never left me on the side of the road, the community is wide and helpful AND as it has connections to an enterprise, it's one of the most developed distro in my honest opinion Till this day, when there was something debatable, Fedora people listened to their community and tried to solve situations in the most beneficial way for both sides, with more or less success in some cases But all in all, if all that's keeping you from trying it is some overly cautious people trying to scare new users away, then I would suggest not listening to them But again, it's a free world, all up to you what you do, do your research and act based on that, but if you are a complete beginner, you are most likely better off with Fedora than most other distros like Ubuntu or Rocky or even Debian If licencing and all that is really your concern, try Linux Mint, but FROM MY EXPERIENCE there you get stuck between two fighting sides, namely the Linux Mint team and Canonical/Ubuntu (For this reason the Linux Mint team tried to distance themselves form being based on Ubuntu and made a Debian based Linux Mint, but there you have the problem of packages being mostly out of date, and the update process of the packages being slow/buggy)
Especially the forced Microsoft account sign-in... skippable (with some jumping through hoops) for now. I expect it won't be in the next major release.
