A Modern Linux Demo: Video Editing/Gaming/Etc...

A look at Linux Minx in June 2024. Can it really handle my day to day tasks? Mostly, yes. CAD and photo editing are still problem areas, but video editing, gaming, and most day to day functionality is pretty good. All of my hardware works without issue. Huion Kamvas 13, Epson V550 scanner, Samsung Printer, XBOX controller, multiple displays, Tripp Lite UPS, Behringer UMC202HD, RTX 3090.... Everything I have is functional with no configuration.

===Timestamps===
00:00 Introduction
00:38 My setup
04:30 What "just worked"
06:00 What needed drivers
07:24 Software manager demo
10:28 Screen Recording (OBS)
11:15 Image editing isn't great
13:17 Video Editing (Davinci Resolve)
16:57 Overclocking
18:21 Helldivers (Windows vs Linux)
21:05 Fusion 360
21:48 Two big pain points - CAD and Photos
22:06 Easy transition from Windows
23:40 Conclusion

[lorduggae]

I set my mom up with Mint on my old gaming rig. The only thing that didn't work OOTB was her wifi adapter. Fixed that easy by moving the tower to connect to ethernet and adding the driver. She is almost 68 and uses it with no issues. Mint is a great distro

[KCKingcollin]

Im happy to see more people trying to move to linux, the more people that try will be the faster corps try to compile their software for linux, once we get better software support i think linux will genuinely be the best option between all the desktop OSs

[MrAlhaines]

I have used Linux Mint for 10+ years and have dumped Windows. I did dual boot while in college but have gone full Linux! everything works except some Wifi/Nic adapters, I have found all the best devices for use with Linux. I first used Slackware Linux in the 90's. Mint is so much better even on my laptops!

[dominik]

It’s not entirely true with VST support. We do have DAW and audio editing programs, both free&open source and commercial, that do support native VST2/VST3 plugins, but then we also have wrappers like Yabridge that allows for running Windows VSTs over Wine in any software that supports VSTs. Resolve Linux port is just stripped down.

[encyclpedia-]

You really need to adjust your resolution for screen recordings. It's really hard to read anything on that screen.

[davey]

Really good overview with useful info for people with a variety of use cases.

[leiilo]

"It is a fairly heavy system..." bro says deadpan with his 64GB RAM, Ryzen 9 5950X and RTX 3090 💀

[Rastloese]

It's funny to see Linux demos about the ease of access: The mouse, keyboard, controller and screens just worked. Inredible.

[Aoitori]

I am glad you are having a good experience on linux

[Beryesa.]

On the flatpak storage disadvantage, it'll deduplicate when needed, so your first apps might need some runtime downloads, but more apps you have, less space it'll take!
The approximate values can't calculate that properly yet, but you can check your flatpak installation folder and you'll see the total size is reasonable with all the added benefits of being independent of your distribution and update cycle :P

[hlashflahflhsjfh]

Flatpaks share dependencies with other Flatpaks so yeah the first one might be huge, but the next one will maybe share 50% of of its dependencies, and the one after that might share 100% with the other two. So filesize isn't quite as dramatically bad "if you use a lot of flatpaks".

Have you tried Krita instead of Gimp. Also not as good as Adobe PS but very good nonetheless.

[Beryesa.]

There's also gpu-screen-recorder for a shadowplay alternative, as OBS only uses nvenc efficiently over Windows indeed, you might want to test that :P
Proton has a little little overhead and Mint using older packages (choosing stability over newer enhancements) _might_ affect more on newer systems than the older ones, but if you're happy, it's fine :P
You should try Bottles for a wine GUI as well, it's slick!

[SwitchedtoLinux]

Excellent breakdown! Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux!

[drumpfall]

The way to think about “system packages” or apps downloaded via a the command line, .deb packages, and via the software center is to think of shared libraries. The app “borrows” shared libraries already on the system that’s why the apps are not that big. Flatpaks, snaps, and app images have all the files included that are needed to run the software. That’s what they are so big in size. Good video.

[unknownorigin]

wonderful video. thank you for showing folks how easy it really can be. Ever since the whole adobe fiasco, I've been seriously considering switching my whole system over to mint and using davinci. my only concern is I'm a video editor by trade and I have lots of plug ins with pemeir and I would lose that if i switched. otherwise i'm completely on board

[Beryesa.]

Rawtherapee is also an option like darktable, though the Adobe situation is forever unfortunate.
When it comes to davinci, they would have to pay for h264 and aac patents (which they rely on it already being paid by Microsoft and Apple on other platforms) so even though it would be technically useable, they won't because of software patents crap in US.
Just as us-based distributions don't ship those codecs by default and "the user can optionally" install them locally (the checkbox in the installer 😅)
I don't think it's binding in EU or anywhere else though but what we can do but wait for av1 to take over ╮⁠(⁠.⁠ ⁠❛⁠ ⁠ᴗ⁠ ⁠❛⁠.⁠)⁠╭

[vjbk]

I never realized I could move the screen position in display settings. I was living with this issue that everything would move up on my laptop when I plugged in my second monitor. Now because of this video I'm good to go 👍

[captain]

20 senior MS veteran. Move 2 of 6 home machine to latest Mint. I really like it. Found all hardware, and runs like lightning compared to W11. Man alive… I cannot wait to retire as I am thoroughly disgusted with the direction. Microsoft is gone. That retirement is at the end of this year and as soon as my responsibilities are finished, everything is going to Linux.

[aravinddnivara]

very important video for anyone looking for a escape from slavery of being part of Microsoft ecosystem when it comes to enterprise software. Linux is the future along with other Linux or Unix based open source softwares. Microsoft is the spanner in the wheel that stops world from progressing into an open source, build once run anywhere software ecosystem.

[Kris-odsj]

For OBS performance you might want to add obs-gamecapture, which can reduce the recording overhead, but you'll have to el explicitly use it to run your games (e.g. in Steam game's parameters you'd put in `obs-gamecapture %command%`. I'm not sure, however how well it'd play with Flatpak OBS or Flatpak Steam.
I'm also aware of a couple performance improvements coming to OBS recently for Nvidia/AMD/Intel encoders on Linux, but I'm not sure if it's already in a release that you're using.

Other than that: good video 👍