Hi Piotr
I've seen your questions earlier when building your editing environment, been impressed
I have used Linux since Slackware - when you were happy to later on have 256 MB RAM, one decent CPU (hadn't heard about cores/multithreading), slow network and mechanical harddisks
At home only modem connection to internet, but still thanks to open source the same software as at work!
Later Redhat as production at work, complemented sometimes with CentOS to 'simplify
' on temporary machine - and at home of course
I really like Linux!
My experience with Resolve on Linux now:
The CentOS install BMD supply is as several has stated 'a reference' but otherwise 'a lousy packaging of CentOS'
If you let it update via internet it will just collapse on next boot (so don't do it if you want to keep the 'reference environment'
It's has an old kernel and it doesn't support a lot of 'modern' HW
In my case problems with:
- A 10 Gbit ethernet card supplied with the MB for a Threadripper, didn't work at all, lots of log compaints all the time
- A NVME 1 TB disk mounted in the motherboard - at least it had a lot of logging complaints about it - didn't continue that branch of testing
- Positive!, my BMD Micro panel worked with Resolve!!!
My preferred Linux dist is Ubuntu Studio!
So nice and clean, all internal HW works
But BMD Micro Panel doesn't work with Resolve
You can download Ubuntu Studio and boot from an optical disk (my preferred since 'nothing' can modify it afterwards if it's closed) and on USB but Ihaven't tested that
When you boot, you can just run and evaluate and later choose to do an install, or install at once
My recommendation - just as Mike Rochefort recommended, install on a clean disk - don't complicate things with dual boot etc, just disconnect all of your other disks to make sure you can go back clean
And, thanks to Daniel Thufvesson fantastic work to repackage BMD install to a .deb package, that install is so clean, same with updates over previous version
Very clear instructions on his url
http://www.danieltufvesson.com/makeresolvedebPiotr, I think you like seeing your hardware run all threads close to 100% sometimes
I've only seen that when stressing ImageMagick with a lot of operations/multiple output on really big files at work before
On both my Dell Xeon and AMD Threadripper, both with 32 threads (in top, press '1' and you see all threads)
When running Daniels's script, all threads went close to 100%
Regarding Threadripper, list of codecs not supported is longer than on Intel - BMD has no warning when you install and default export format is Dnx...
If you don't change Dnx... to something else that export/render will just crash Resolve in a bad manner
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I really look forward to Resolve with all functions on Ubuntu Studio - Please BMD!
You are so close to a fantastic and stable Linux product!
Best regards
Björn