• OwOarchist@pawb.social
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    7 days ago

    With an nvidia GPU, I’m using Davinci Resolve just fine on Linux, no need for Windows at all.

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      7 days ago

      The argument for dual boot is mostly for gaming, as far as compute is concerned your AMD graphics card would have been fine on Ubuntu or an RHEL/CentOS operating system. But honestly in my experience, it’s always good to dual boot just in case. There are many scenarios where it saves you headaches and precious time.

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        7 days ago

        as far as compute is concerned your AMD graphics card would have been fine on Ubuntu

        I was on Ubuntu. And it was not fine.

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          6 days ago

          Yeah sorry, the Amd card itself works great with Ubuntu in compute tasks. The software DaVinci Resolve however is a red hat binary so you would need to be on Rhel or centOS to work with Linux.

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            6 days ago

            Nope. It was the AMD card (and associated drivers) that was the issue.

            You know how I know? Because I’m currently running Davinci Resolve just fine on Ubuntu, with an nvidia card.

            I’m telling you, absolutely nothing I tried could get GPU compute to work for AMD. Nothing I ever did could get ROCm working on AMD (and I did a lot of things trying to get it working), but cuda on nvidia worked instantly and automatically as soon as I installed the nvidia drivers.

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              6 days ago

              AMD video drivers are known to conflict with davinci resolve in Ubuntu. Thats why I said, to get it to work Natively on Linux you would need to switch to RHEL or CentOS.

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                AMD video drivers are known to conflict with davinci resolve in Ubuntu.

                Well, I couldn’t get GPU compute on AMD to work with anything else, either. It’s not a Davinci Resolve specific issue.

                Thats why I said, to get it to work Natively on Linux you would need to switch to RHEL or CentOS.

                Or… I could switch to nvidia. Which I did. And it’s been working great.