I may switch my company's computers from Kubuntu over to Rocky Linux... over time of course. Tell me if that's a bad idea! DaVinci Resolve Studio is the single most important application we use and every other application supports Rocky fine or is a Flatpak. I would love to hear other's takes!
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@benny Good point! Running on it's native distro may show some overall improvements
@micahbp I'm not super familiar here, and am confused by the "native distro" here. Do you mean MacOS? Or Windows? It's definitely not native to Linux, unless I'm missing something big.
@benny Blackmagic Design officially supports Rocky Linux. And yes, Resolve was originally designed to run on custom built and sold Linux systems way back in the day. It came to Windows and Mac later
@micahbp ah! That makes a lot more sense. Thanks!
@micahbp What is your overall footprint, and does this apply to servers as well?
@omenos 3 editing desktops and an editing laptop. Then probably 2 general purpose laptops. No servers just yet. We have another company hosting our Nextcloud and we pay for email.
@micahbp If you can swing it, six seats of RHEL Workstation will run you about $2k per year. Less if the two general purpose laptops won't be running DCCs.
Knowing that everything will Just Work™️ 99.99% of the time regardless of what anyone else is doing can be worth the spend. There's the added benefit of the desktop and graphics team being fairly hungry for users and feedback, so you can help guide their decision making via feature requests and workload demonstrations.
Otherwise, I would recommend taking a look at AlmaLinux. The community is very friendly and responsive, and the distribution focuses on ABI compatibility with RHEL. This provides the freedom to make slight modifications (bringing disabled drivers back, applying bug fixes outside of Red Hat's cadence) all while not breaking application and library compatibility.
Realistically any Red Hat family distribution will work for your scenario, be it RHEL, CentOS Stream, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, etc.
@omenos Good thoughts! I appreciate the input. Can't really justify $2K just yet, but going RHEL down the road is our most likely future. I'll check out Alma though! Thanks again! That or Rocky is probably the direction we'll start moving to.
@micahbp Not directly an answer, but I've heard Resolve shows pretty nice performance improvements on AlmaLinux, so I'm sure it'd work on Rocky, too.