Just so ppl aren’t dissapointed
Daws like ableton and fl studio don’t have support (Reaper and Bitwig do tho, some others too)
Visual programs like touch designer and resolume don’t work (seen workarounds but they have issues)
Davinci resolve may crash, it worked fine on arch but on bazzite it freezes my pc when loading projects
On the gaming side obv there are the games that won’t function without anticheat like wrc, iracing, f1, etc. No game pass ofc.
I still wouldn’t swap back to windows and I barely use it, maybe once a month if I really want to use something not on Linux.
Main downside is lack of piracy. Houdinifx should work fine on linux natively, but lacks a crack. So even if the paid software does work, if you pirate to use this stuff as a hobby than you’ll have to swap to something like Blender/Inkscape that is free and works on linux. Only crack I’ve found was for Davinci Resolve.
Linux has plenty of free and capable alternatives for paid software, I like that it has me using Foss more. Went from learning Houdini + Davinci to just sticking with Blender for my hobby visuals, not mad about it, prefer that I was forced to focus on one.
Davinci resolve may crash, it worked fine on arch but on bazzite it freezes my pc when loading projects
I guess it’s weirdly picky about distros for some reason?
Personally, I’ve been using it on Ubuntu just fine with absolutely no issues. But I’ve heard of other people on other distros saying they could never get it to run.
Went from learning Houdini + Davinci to just sticking with Blender for my hobby visuals, not mad about it, prefer that I was forced to focus on one.
Yeah … though I still have Davinci Resolve, Kdenlive is actually my go-to video editor. It’s not quite as full-featured as full-on Davinci Resolve … but it feels simpler to use and more intuitive to me, and it’s got all the features I need for my basic stuff. Kdenlive is some good shit.
just sticking with Blender
And, actually, I’ve had linux-related issues with that. Not in Blender itself, but if you use any plugins, you might have issues. A lot of the people out there making Blender plugins are apparently not concerned at all about linux compatibility, so some Blender plugins don’t work in linux.
Just so ppl aren’t dissapointed Daws like ableton and fl studio don’t have support (Reaper and Bitwig do tho, some others too)
And while Bitwig runs great, there’s a much smaller selection of Linux-compatible third-party plugins. I didn’t have any luck with compatibility layers, so I switched my complete plugin stack when I switched to Linux. I’m relatively ascetic when it comes to plugins, but lots of people won’t be willing to work like that.
I did dual booting for a month just to make sure there wasn’t a single use case for windows left. Not ONE use case for me.
Just so ppl aren’t dissapointed Daws like ableton and fl studio don’t have support (Reaper and Bitwig do tho, some others too)
Visual programs like touch designer and resolume don’t work (seen workarounds but they have issues)
Davinci resolve may crash, it worked fine on arch but on bazzite it freezes my pc when loading projects
On the gaming side obv there are the games that won’t function without anticheat like wrc, iracing, f1, etc. No game pass ofc.
I still wouldn’t swap back to windows and I barely use it, maybe once a month if I really want to use something not on Linux.
Main downside is lack of piracy. Houdinifx should work fine on linux natively, but lacks a crack. So even if the paid software does work, if you pirate to use this stuff as a hobby than you’ll have to swap to something like Blender/Inkscape that is free and works on linux. Only crack I’ve found was for Davinci Resolve.
Linux has plenty of free and capable alternatives for paid software, I like that it has me using Foss more. Went from learning Houdini + Davinci to just sticking with Blender for my hobby visuals, not mad about it, prefer that I was forced to focus on one.
I guess it’s weirdly picky about distros for some reason?
Personally, I’ve been using it on Ubuntu just fine with absolutely no issues. But I’ve heard of other people on other distros saying they could never get it to run.
Yeah … though I still have Davinci Resolve, Kdenlive is actually my go-to video editor. It’s not quite as full-featured as full-on Davinci Resolve … but it feels simpler to use and more intuitive to me, and it’s got all the features I need for my basic stuff. Kdenlive is some good shit.
And, actually, I’ve had linux-related issues with that. Not in Blender itself, but if you use any plugins, you might have issues. A lot of the people out there making Blender plugins are apparently not concerned at all about linux compatibility, so some Blender plugins don’t work in linux.
And while Bitwig runs great, there’s a much smaller selection of Linux-compatible third-party plugins. I didn’t have any luck with compatibility layers, so I switched my complete plugin stack when I switched to Linux. I’m relatively ascetic when it comes to plugins, but lots of people won’t be willing to work like that.
I did it for almost a year. Went back over once just to get files I missed moving the first time.