i’d love to see blackmagic jump in with steamos as their main distro. i think they build for rockyos currently but…

if they jump to building davinci resolve (and its new lightroom style photo editing) on steamos rather than rocky.. this would be pretty powerful combine the insane wonders steamos is doing for gaming on linux and add davinci, that would really open up the linux landscape for a ton more people.

i’m currently daily driving linux for work, gaming, and personal pc. unfortunately i’m still pulling out my macbook for video editing and for lightroom.

come on blackmagic, read this and take the leap. valve has done fucking amazing with linux. just choose steamos to build against rather than rocky. its going to have significantly higher number of people already using it for other stuff.

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pbmonster an hour ago | parent | next [-]

This might make sense once SteamBox is a large percentage of Linux Desktop installs.

Right now, it would be insanity. Just the situation with running SteamOS on hardware with NVIDIA cards would be a showstopper. And a whole lot of consumer PCs ship with NVIDIA chips...

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scott01 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I believe the tools like Resolve are built around VFX reference platform specs. I doubt anyone will standardise on the basis of a rolling distro where you can’t pin glibc version. https://vfxplatform.com

	▲	toofy 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		steamos is not a rolling release. yes, it’s built on arch, but they halt with snapshots and do testing and their own patches before they roll out updates.
	▲	charcircuit 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The flatpak runtime they would choose would have a fixed glibc version.

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la_oveja 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

davinci resolve is available on the aur

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/davinci-resolve

	▲	toofy 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		sure, but you have to jump through hoops to make it work. the only distro blackmagic supports is rockyos. they don’t want to build against and support hundreds of distros so they work specifically against rocky. to save developer time. my point is, since steamos is already supporting their distro and not rolling out bleeding edge, (yes, it’s based on arch, but they freeze it and they test it before they roll out updates) blackmagic would have a vetted foundation to build on and a much larger user base from the jump.