There is no problem with a debian based distro, just you need a couple of symlinks and a proper GPU with drivers
Thanks for your help, Kuntal. I tried installing Resolve on Debian distro again and I had a very nice experience with it. It actually installed very easily. I only needed to install libssl1.0.0 and do a couple of symlinks and everything works fine.
The only problem I had with it is the sound issue, where the meters indicates there is sound in the video (and I know there is sound) but I am not getting any output.
Has anybody figured a way to fix this issue?
At the moment you can not edit properly in Resolve Linux without the a decklink card and studio version of the software
I am yet to try actual editing with the free version on Linux. I will give an update on how it works for me as soon as I test it.
But there is another NLE , Editshare Lightworks whose recent releases (betas) of version 14 has an interface similar to Resolve with better editing features
I am aware of Lightworks. I actually tried it when it was in version 12, but I didn't like it that much. The new version seems worth a try though. I will probably download it tonight and see if I will like it.
I've installed from the BMD ISO on two machines. One is an older AMD, and the other a new double Xeon.
They are both quite solid, knock wood, even using old Decklink SDI cards.
Unfortunately, Noel, I didn't have a nice experience yesterday with BMD ISO installation. The OS installed, but the NVIDIA driver didn't work, and I tried to install it myself, but kept jumping from one problem to another, fixing them, until I hit a brick wall with one of them, and had to give up because it was way too late at night
I will write a long post later explaining exactly what I experienced yesterday trying to install Resolve on Debian distro and on the DaVinci Resolve CentOS.
Of course I am not suggesting that CentOS is not good, as I have never given it a fair trial. I have always used Debian based distros. In fact, I have seen CentOS used in some VFX facilities here in London. So, for sure, it works for them or they would have just dropped it.
but we have to take it as it comes.
I actually wouldn't have had an issue using CentOS (despite preferring Debian distros) if it worked well for me, but I actually had huge issues trying to get it to work yesterday. Compared to that, installing a package and creating a couple of symlinks on Linux Mint is nothing. I only need to figure out how to fix that audio issue where there is clearly audio in the footage, but there is no actual output.
but back to your actual problems! -- try to start the resolve from the command line, not by double clicking the icon.
you should get some error reports...
This is exactly what I did, and I managed to get these problems fixed doing a simple search on the mighty Google
Thank you very much guys. As I said, I am going to do a post about my experience trying to install Resolve on both systems. Hopefully, we can figure out where things went wrong with the BMD ISO.