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Look at the compatibility of the device you are running it on. Older hardware like the PlayStation Vita, will only work with H.264 AAC.

Handbranks is able to convert this for you with no issues (even on Linux flatpak ftw), and web playback on a Apache2 server is great. But if your planning on watching it on more modern devices, then don't worry too much about it.

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OK, let me fill you with my experience. Now I am on Desktop Linux, and I can't say how your Double Touch screens will work. But I can tell you about some of your points.

Affinity, canva, corel, and cinema4d are not Linux compatible and you'll need to run them in Wine/Wine GE via software like Bottles or Lutris. Most will not work, while others like affinity might work, but requires a lot of working around. If these software's are required, you may want to look at a Mac.

keyshot, gimp, vscode(ium) are all native and have either scripts or can be installed via Flatpak or from the distros app repos.

Davinci Resolve is interesting, You've lucked out since you have an rtx2060, but Resolve is quite finicky to get working Linux. You'll need nvidia drivers and the open source free drivers will not work. All good Linux distros should have easy access, but I found Fedora to be trickier to install. Once you can get Resolve working, you'll either need to buy Studio if you want H.264 support, and if your videos aren't using PCM audio then you'll need to convert it using FFMPEG. I have a script which I use at the end of my injest. Afterwords, it runs and works fine, with no issues (assuming you have the RAM to run it 32GB recommended). If you don't want to deal with any of this (understandable) Mac OS has no issues out of the box.

Working file explorer: up to taste, and personal preference. Every distro will have one and it'll be good enough, but some distros tailor theirs to their OS's tastes. If you are running with a popular Desktop Environment, i.e. KDE Plasma, Gnome, Cinnamon, then it'll work.

Now if you want my two cents on all of this. First you should aim for a Ubuntu based distro. While Ubuntu itself isn't bad, I personally prefer a different Desktop Environment as Gnome is too different for me from what Windows offers. Linux Mint with Cinnamon and POP_OS are good alternative with a more Windows/Mac flavoring, and since they are running Gnome underneath it'll have the same compatibility as Ubuntu proper with hardware.

Another option is Kubuntu which used KDE's Plasma. Plasma is OK, but I find it to be a little less refined than it's appearance lead me to believe.

Now for testing, I'd advise you to get a second SSD and an enclosure and plug it into a USB-C port. It'll do wonders to quickly go an run everything, without sacrificing you existing install of Winblows. Linux is so efficent I ran my main PC for a week off of it, and only noticed while running games.

Finally, depending on how often you are using your Windows only software. You might get away with running them in a Windows 10 VM, and using a shared folder to the Host machine to move files back and forth.

This is definatly a project you should look into, but I feel you should probably look at more cross platform alternatives to your software first. Since another alternative, if you aren't playing games, is a Mac.

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Well your only alternative is Kdenlive, which is a very unstable experience. There are some alternative video editing software on Linux, but they follow the adobe model of, give me your money forever to use it. Resolve works, just need to tune your injest to get the video to work. I have a bash script I can send you that batch fixes videos which I can send you.

As for apple machines. I get the distain as I too don’t like Apple, and feel their locked in software, hardware, and ecosystem is overpriced and unreliable. But the way I see it, if the computer is for work, which this appears to be, I need the best machine for the job, and Apple unlike Microsoft and Google, has very clean software and hardware that I can trust for professional work. No ads, very fast hardware, stable, with no compromises.

That said I will not use them for personal use. Hence the switch over to Linux. I would’ve got a Mac Mini for work if I had the budget for one.

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It’s like al KDE projects IMHO. Good on the surface and works well. But use it for any length of time and you will find problems, unfinished areas, or parts where it was implemented without considering why it was like this in the first place.

For example, plug your 1080p laptop into a display with 4K and watch are your desktop icon gets sorted by a-z randomly instead of keeping the order you had it.

Or try to add a calendar even to your system by clicking the calendar which is found in the date and time on the taskbar.

Online accounts added to the system do not integrate into other KDE apps requiring additional signin.

I feel this is probably caused from KDE’s team being small, but having a large suite of apps.

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I've moved away from KDE for a while now. Been using Cinnamon since.

And most of my "bugs" are more missing features than anything.

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Here a quick run down of PC gaming in general and the state of it on Linux.

PC gaming has boiled down to Clients which will manage your games, this would be your Steam, EA App, Ubisoft Connect, GOG Galaxy, and many many more. These Clients act as both the Store to buy your games, the Game manager to install and delete your games, the online client to let you play online with friends, and the DRM to ensure that you and only you can play your games. Out side of GOG most PC games will not run without a client installed.

In Linux there is only officially Valve's Steam which is compatible. You can find Steam as a Flatpak or as a Package in your distros Package Manager. Thanks to Valve's Steam Deck console there is a shocking number of Linux native games to choose from, however thanks to Steams implementation of Wine called Proton, many native Windows games are also compatible. Proton can be enabled for all games in the settings, though the results cannot be guaranteed.

Hardware wise, your default controller is your mouse and keyboard. But Linux is compatible with, from my testing, any modern controller compatible with Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo systems. For certain generas of games you may want to consider getting a controller if you find your mouse and keyboard is frustrating to control your game with.

In terms of games it really depends on your tastes so a recommendation is difficult. I'd look at what TV Shows, books and other forms of entertainment you'd like to discover titles which you prefer. If you aren't afraid to raise the Jolly Roger you may find some classic games on older video game consoles online as ROM files which you can play on open source emulators. Linux is compatible with a wide array of them, though Retroarch is used as a hub that has a minor learning curve but is compatible with everything. (Just make sure to install the Flatpak version or the steam version).

Last piece of advice, Humble Bundle bundles is a good place to find a lot of games for cheap. Not all the games are bangers, but often can include games from small developers than can often fall between the cracks of many user recommendations. You can find them here: https://www.humblebundle.com/games

Here are some game recommendations which I feel would be fun to anyone who wants to play games.

  • Antichamber A Fun Indi puzzle game which twists reality and loop back onto itself.

  • Fallout 3/The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim - Some of the more critically acclaimed games, both are adventure games in the same style, but Fallout has guns and based in the Post Apocalyptic Future, while Skyrim is more like Dungeons and Dragons.

  • The Stanly Parable - A Hysterical narrative adventure with no combat. A YouTube playthrough will explain the game better than I could.

  • Team Fortress 2 A Team Based First Person shooter, also the first Free game here. It's an older title but it still holds up and can be a lot of fun once you get the hang of it.

  • Besiege A sandbox medieval weapon construction game. The tutorials will get you going and you can many many silly things.

  • Portal/Portal 2 Puzzle Platformer shooter, where you play with physics to solve puzzles. It's a must play and is often on sale.

  • SimCity 3000/Cities Skylines A City Building game where you can build and manage your own City. SimCity is an older title but holds up well IMHO but Cities Skylines is a more modern game (Skylines 2 is a buggy unoptimized rushed mess. Avoid it for the time being)

  • Civilization 6 Strategy game where you can build an empire. I prefer 5, but 6 is the go to game right now.

  • Rollercoaster Tycoon/Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 Make your own theme park, from the rollercoaster to the rides. OpenRCT2 has a more modern look to the classic.

Now just because I am recommending Steam doesn't mean the other launcher won't work in Linux. Lutris and Bottles can be used to install and manage your Windows apps, with varying degrees of stability.

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In Settings you'll find an option called "Compatibility" here you'll find 2 options, I'll advise the Steam Play for supported titles, but the all other titles option is more desirable, but the results may not be desirable.

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ELI5: when a computer stores something like a file or a folder, it needs to know where it lives and where its contents are stored. Normally where the a file or folder lives is the same place as where its contents are. But there are times where a file may live in one place and its contents are elsewhere. That’s a symlink.

So for your video example, the original video is located in Downloads so the video file will say I am movie.mp4 and I live i live in downloads, and my contents are in downloads. While the symlink says, I am movie.mp4 I live in home, and my contents are in downloads over there.

For a video player, it doesn’t care if the file and the content is in the same place, it just need to know where the content lives.

Now how software will treat a symlink as an absolute. For example if you have 2 PCs synced with cloud storage, and both downloads and home is being synced between your 2 pcs. Your cloud storage will look at the symlink, access the content from pc1 and put your movie.mp4 in pc2’s downloads and home. But it will also put the contents in both places in pc2 since to it, the results are the same. One could make software sync without breaking the symlink, but it depends on the developer and the scope of the software.

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It booted into a GUI afterwards, and had grub installed.

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Dang it. I swore I typed it out right. Uggh,

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They have a cross walk now, I feel so safe now.

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It did and it went by so fast I couldn't take a pic.

the16bitgamer ,
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Ubuntu Late 2000’s. I wanted it because of the CUBE. But left because the only game which worked was TF2.

I've Installed multiple Linux Distros on my Editing Rig to see how well Davinci Resolve Studio works. Here are the results.

So a couple of weeks ago, I made this post asking for help from those who used Linux and Davinci Resolve, and their experience. To those who's response was effectively "I use arch btw", I hear you, but that wasn't the question I wanted to ask....

the16bitgamer OP , (edited )
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Well there wasn't much to say. Other than importing videos requires you to extract the audio first in pcm/mp3 or making a new container. The editing experience is the same for my use case.

I experienced no hick ups before resolve made me wait a week before I can use it again. The only issue I have is that there is no Title Bar so closing and minimizing resovle isn't straight forward.

Edit: I was more preoccupied with whether or not Resolve would boot.

So if there was anything specific you'd like to know I can check it out and report back.

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Its more Ubuntu is king since its the most popular. Mint is riding on their coattails as experienced with the DE distro.

Don't get me wrong though. Its a very good distro for newbies.

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Making the iso was never an issue but its always food to know.

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My distain toward Fedora is IBM/fedoras obstinate to not deliver non-FOSS apps in the official repos. I understand their decision. But forcing users rely on third party projects like RPM Fusion to use non free apps doesn't feel like a good solution.

If Fedora offered out of the box or an easy method to enable this I wouldn't have an issue. Even dnf can be forgiven if it didn't ask so much from the end user.

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With my Dyslexia, and hunt spell having an issue with certain words. Its always hard to tell if I spelt something right or not.

Thanks for catching that and I edited the correct spelling. And left one in but crossed out.

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That's what I did the first install and it borked my install. Most troubleshooting said it was a TPM thing, but nothing I tried could recover the desktop so I had to resinstall.

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I have a personal distain towards Ubuntu which is why its not installed. With that said, I didn't install POP_OS because it didn't have Cinnamon. That said I see it on the same level as Mint since it includes an easy co fig and setup.

I've just spent too much time configuring Pop to look like Windows that I just cut the BS and install Cinnamon/KDE plasma and aim for distros that support it.

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I did, I even linked the steps I used both times.

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I am currently using a NVMe to USB-C adapter right now. And while loading is reminding me a bit of the early 2010's, it's fast enough to play games on it. I am aware that there are NVMe to PCI adapter, I'm just being cheap. Though when I hit the point of editing I'll probably move over to that.

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Yup, this is my work desktop with the sole purpose of it being for work. The last thing I want to do or desire to do on it is configure my machine to get to the point I can start working. Mint does that

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I was hoping it would be too TBH. DNF5 is looking promising and I know Fedora can game. Maybe it's just a quirk of the Cinnamon Spin of it. Probably isn't but I can't think of what else it could've been.

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I have no clue.

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I think you need to define "normal".

Normal as in, drag and drop clips and music then output the results. Not much since they are both free, but Kden arguably better is better since it's compatible with AAC audio.

Normal as in, doing YouTube for fun. Then the workflow is a lot easier, like being able to duplicate entire video tracks, or change the order of the layers. A very robust effects system with Fusion that can be copied to other clips in a timeline.

I personally prefer Resolve for my workflow, as it makes my life easier. But I do usually have Kden on my laptop since (a) Resolve doesn't work on Intel GPUs... yet (b) I see it as a better MS Movie Maker.

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For me the "best of Gnome" was having the online accounts actually be usable in the desktop. In KDE if I was to sign in to my Google account my calendar events wouldn't show up in my desktop calendar, while one Gnome and by extension Cinnamon it does.

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I love the idea of KDE connect, but its over featured and buggy.

Most times I'm trying to send a file, the computer I'm sending to is not visible which requires me to goto that machine and reset KDE Connect. I can't send more than one file or KDE Connect crashes and resetting it on Linux is a proper pain.

Plus I just want to use it to transfer files, yet there is no universal setting for the app, thus I have to turn on/off the features I want per device. And when KDE connect randomly forgets a device and I need to re-pair it I have to disable everything again.

At times Bluetooth file transfer is easier. But then I use it on my iPad, where the app can't work unless its open and in focus. But the alternative is a great big middle finger. Its fantastic and I will deal with the KDE jank.

Planning on moving over from Windows 10 to Linux for my Personal Work Station. Can't decide which OS I should switch to.

Windows has been a thorn in my side for years. But ever since I started moved to Linux on my Laptop and swapping my professional software to a cross platform alternative, I've been dreaming on removing it from my SSD....

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Yeah I have an arch in a bum VM (stupid apple auto correct) to toy with new release like this. KDE 6 feels like KDE 5 with some slight tweaks.

Doesn’t sound like praise but considering how buggy KDE was in Wayland before this is a massive improvement. Still not my cup of tea and Libre Office still has issues with separate icons in the task bar.in Wayland.

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While I have my own personal gripes with it, it’s has one of the most robust GUI configurations I’ve seen in any Linux distos. As someone who doesn’t want downtime having a gui for things like Kernel config and systemd, Manjaro has its perks.

Doesn’t outweigh breaking my build for touching AUR, but ther is a reason I consider it.

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My issue with just choosing debain is I don’t know if I’m sacrificing Resolve compatibility by choosing it.

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That’s why it’s on this list, but I’m more looking to see if Resolve has issue with it.

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That was my consensus with software like Lutris and adding Wine’s packages

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I’d like to do this, but honestly I don’t have the spare storage to let me do this on my desktop. So I’d be cracking it open to swap drives and that’ll be a hassle.

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That’s my two cents using mint. Though getting some software like xpadneo required me to build from source.

the16bitgamer OP ,
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Did you install Resolve via AUR or from their installer? How was updating the software? Did you find the performance in fusion to be worse in Linux or in par to Windows?

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Oh I just added the FreeCAD repos to my OS. Still working out AppImages and how to “install” them to my OS like an application rather then a portable exe.

the16bitgamer OP ,
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I've given this advice in the past too. I'm probably sticking with Cinnamon, which is why Mint is in the options.

the16bitgamer OP ,
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Oh I knew I cast a wide net when I posted here. Wasn't looking for which distros were best, but rather common pitfalls in this communities zeitgeist, as well as the 1 or two users who actually use the software I am using and any issues that they came across.

For example Fedora was high on my list of potentials before it was pointed out that it has issues with Nvidia's drivers. As I am looking for minimal down time/setup it dropped on my list.

I also heard from someone who is using it on Arch which means I have a fallback if my distros of choice fails.

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Gnome (default) has it's place for someone who doesn't want a conventional desktop environment or doesn't like the contemporaries desktop look a likes. But man, I'm 20+ years of using Windows and it's the way I like my Desktop Environments.

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I though that was the case. But honestly I'll take a flatpak over appimage since I can get those auto updates. I like appimages for those one off programs like Etcher where I need it for 30 seconds and never again for several months. But it would be so nice to have them as a part of an installable process.

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If I'm going mint I'm going mint De since I dislike ubuntu for personal reason

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Honestly your feedback was what I was looking for. While I could trial and error this myself, I would like to skip the hassle if possible.

From what it sounds like, while Debain is stable as a OS, but it might be a lot of trouble to install Resolve. Thank you for the link for the makeresolvedeb project, didn't know this existed, and I find it funny how Black Magic is trying to treat linux like WIndows.

I was hoping I could avoid Arch, but it does sound like the safest bet for getting it to work.

I can probably dig around and see if Resolve works well in OpenSuse. But from the lack of Forum and debate around it, I am guessing it's niche.

Welp my install order doesn't change, but I now have a new challenge. Don't update the live image packages, install resolve, then update the system. If Resolve lives I can keep the distro.

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I don't think the 64GB of leftover space is enough XD

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I use Bauh on my VM Endeavor install. Compared to using the terminal it's amazing, but it feels limited. For example I can't install multiple packages at once it I can with other distro's gui.

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Yeah, I bought Resolve Studio when I switched over from Vegas. I've been planning this move for a while.

Handbrake if u are still having issues

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