why Resolve not makes it all distro of linux?

hi

i dont understand long time why resolve make it default for all distros linux instead "release we support CentOS and RHEL 7.3" ..WHAT...?....

why...?

maybe team developers are not skill for FIX ISSUES REPEATS BILLIONS TIMES..i know company blackmagic design is POWERFULLY, HIGH PROFESSIONAL..instead they dont know to RESOLVE IT?

please make it simple find SOLUTION/"RESOLVE"

year 2021 is highest technology/softwares/developers.. or i'm wrong...?

thank you

I can only speculate that the Linux installations represent only a small fraction of their market. Those companies that can invest in the Linux full panel license tend to either purchase turnkey systems from integrators or have strong in-house engineering support. They don't really care about running Resolve on Ubuntu and other distros and just stick to the qualified CentOS.

I can only speculate that the Linux installations represent only a small fraction of their market. Those companies that can invest in the Linux full panel license tend to either purchase turnkey systems from integrators or have strong in-house engineering support. They don't really care about running Resolve on Ubuntu and other distros and just stick to the qualified CentOS.

Pretty much that.

I have used Linux distros as my sole operating system for 20 years and I have noticed a few things. Most Windows computers have the exact same libs (library files, .dll files), so most consumer Windows machines will be somewhat identical. Linux, however, is a different case. Some Linux distros have a rolling release cycle (library files continually upgrading) while others have new releases every year (library files don't change within a release), you could pull up five different Linux computers and the library files are all very different. I remember having a couple of apps that worked perfectly in one Linux distro but wouldn't work at all, without major changes, in a different distro.

Many video editors for Linux are distributed as flatpacks or standalone apps where the required libraries are included in the editor package - this solves the problem of widely varying library files between Linux distros but greatly increases the file size of the video editor package. In order to support every Linux distribution Black Magic Design would have to test their software releases on every Linux distro - and there are hundreds of Linux distros with new ones appearing all the time, it's simply too much work to keep up with.

The problem is, at least in my opinion, that the Linux world suffers from too many cooks in different kitchens and most of those cooks aren't interested in, or outright refuse, collaboration.

I'm glad BMD doesn't support every Linux distro.. we'd have to wait years for new DaVinci Resolve releases.

I can only speculate that the Linux installations represent only a small fraction of their market. Those companies that can invest in the Linux full panel license tend to either purchase turnkey systems from integrators or have strong in-house engineering support. They don't really care about running Resolve on Ubuntu and other distros and just stick to the qualified CentOS.

Strong in-house support.. this is it exactly. Most Linux distros rely on unpaid, non-certified, volunteers for tech support and you end up with a hundred methods of solving a problem with some of those methods being downright dangerous to the Linux system or data security.

They don't really care about running Resolve on Ubuntu and other distros and just stick to the qualified CentOS.

CentOS is end of life.

Recent Resolve releases install easily with the .run script and work extremely well on Ubuntu. That is not by chance. BMD provides Decklink drivers with both rpm and deb installers. Drivers are very tricky, so they clearly test more than just CentOS.

They don't really care about running Resolve on Ubuntu and other distros and just stick to the qualified CentOS.

CentOS is end of life.

Recent Resolve releases install easily with the .run script and work extremely well on Ubuntu. That is not by chance. BMD provides Decklink drivers with both rpm and deb installers. Drivers are very tricky, so they clearly test more than just CentOS.

I tried both the .run script and the makedev method with Ubuntu 20.10 and Davinci Resolve would install perfectly but would always crash. My system: AMD Ryzen 7, 32GB RAM, 2TB SSD, AMD RX579 GPU. I also tried both methods in Mint, Manjaro and debian.. with the same results. I suppose the issue could have been my video card. Nothing in the Linux world is as easy as some would have us believe.

I suppose the issue could have been my video card. Nothing in the Linux world is as easy as some would have us believe.

For Linux, you need nVidia. The drivers install/update automatically. Couldn't be simpler. I like AMD, and have one on a Mac, but they just don't work with Linux yet.

Yep, on Linux unfortunately if you want an (almost) hassle-free experience for content creation apps that need gpu compute,
you need Nvidia.
And oh, how I'd like a Radeon to pair with my Ryzen
hoping that in the future things will change.

I suppose the issue could have been my video card. Nothing in the Linux world is as easy as some would have us believe.

For Linux, you need nVidia. The drivers install/update automatically. Couldn't be simpler. I like AMD, and have one on a Mac, but they just don't work with Linux yet.

Thank you for that info.. I'll try to get my hands on an nVidia card.

hi

i dont understand long time why resolve make it default for all distros linux instead "release we support CentOS and RHEL 7.3" ..WHAT...?....

Basically the reason is the same as with Mac OS where they support the most recent release (and one older?)

Making sure the program works as well as it can, is a tedious thing to do and perfect. Especially with Linux where every vendor is free to mix and match the pieces as they please.