lol Blackmagic's response to DaVinci Resolve failing to properly detect Mesa is "install an actual AMD driver" 💀

Cause surely the "actual AMD driver" which is inferior from every point of view must be better because it's proprietary right?

Sometimes it feels like this shit is just a circus specifically to make people think proprietary software is superior so tech billionaires can keep getting richer 🙃

@hazelnot davinci resolve can't even import an .mp4 with an audio track correctly on Linux. When I tried it, I had to extract audio, re-encode it (ffmpeg, soundconverter, etc), and resync it to the video track for every new import.

Their linux support is so bad it is basically a lie.

@thufie yeah, the MP4 stuff is apparently some weird licensing issue

But DaVinci started out as Linux-based complete workstations and it's still primarily intended for professional cinema work, so the Linux support isn't really a lie, it's just that it's still intended for kinda specific configurations used in the movie industry and as far as I'm aware it's still heavily using Linux-based editing workstations

But yeah it sucks for anything that isn't something the movie industry actively heavily uses

@hazelnot if literally every other video editor on Linux can do it, there's not really a good excuse. I'm aware of the bad excuse. It sucks. Good luck setting up Hollywood Linux!

@thufie fair, my issue is that none of the other video editors available on Linux can do motion graphics or colour correction nearly as well as DVR can, so I kinda have to use it or install Windows and use After Effects and stuff 😔

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@hazelnot Does DaVinci have a minimum requirements page, or an officially supported Distro of any kind?

@hazelnot oh wait. Rocky Linux, that's their target?? seriously??? Why?

Well maybe you can setup distrobox with a rocky linux container image just for DaVinci. What a pain.

@thufie but also it's Rocky Linux cause that's what the Hollywood workstations use 💀

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