You've a big bunch of programmers in your audience and you have these issues which makes the hop over to Linux harder for you. Why don't you deploy your army of programmers to do something awesome for Open source community which would allow yourself to create content on Linux box with open source tools?
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From what I have heard most of the issues is that the software that he uses to render and record stuff is the main limiting factor for him. There are alternatives like Kdenlive and OBS that he could use. It's just a thing that he has to figure out.
What's the software he currently uses? Adobe stuff?
Yup, I believe he talked about it in his latest tek Could be wrong though his stuff tends to blend together.
Like I said there are alternatives for him but he just needs to really get used to the alternatives.
Aint that the beauty of the Open Source? You can make the software to fit your needs, right?
Not always, there are options for almost everything but some things don't have a replacement that suffice. Not many though.
If you're a competent programmer (With experience with the type of program that you want to use) you can make/edit your own.
I don't ever use Virtual Environments or KVM, so I sure hope someone makes a good tutorial about this sometime soon. I would really like to know how well this pass-through thing is.
Think Wendall was going to make one but can't be sure if that's happening soon or not.
@blanger was able to passthrought an AMD 270x and he's getting bare metal performance (maybe even better performance than a metal install of windows). So it works very very well. Granted you have the hardware that supports it.
It works better than I ever expected it would (in my case I can not tell the difference between it and a bare metal install other than a few issues related to the KVM itself and sharing devices virtually), and I have been able to run all the Adobe stuff with the exception of Premier (I never tried it) which is what Logan uses, I'm sure that Premier will run and I'd bet with Wendell's help would run very well. I'm sure at some point this will be a part of Logan's setup, with the issues of Win X I'd bet sooner than later.
The guys are very busy people with a lot on their plate...I can understand why Logan went Win X now to keep productivity up and flowing, but I'd expect that they have a grander plan and this is just a temporary way to keep the videos coming, when you have a backlog of footage that needs to be turned into content you really have little time to do much else....much less work the bugs out of a system that will need to be tweaked a little.
Tell me, with this pass-through method can you also run Windows games reasonably well or is it only 2D stuff still?
Yes you can basically run anything on Windows in a KVM that you could run on a bare metal install...but there is more to it.
Think of it this way...if you were going to build a new PC to run Windows as your primary OS and you intended to play games on that computer what hardware would you buy?
To have a successful, robust, and stable KVM that you can game on you need to give it those very same resources either physically with PCI/GPU pass through or virtually to the guest, once you start thinking about it in those terms and understand what the underlying OS (Linux) needs to operate then you can come to some conclusion as to what type and amount of hardware you need to make it all work.
I don't want to hijack the thread so if you want to PM me I can give you more details....
We may have a solution that does just this.
We've been working on it for a while.
But then we need to get it all setup.
that requires down time. It will happen, but not right away.
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No worries I totally understand.
As a long time Linux user, I'm really happy that you guys support Linux, by making videos, explaining stuff and most of all you're willing to use it as your "main" platform even for editing.
Would be nice though to have (at the end of the process) a video by one of you guys, reviewing your setup, how well it works, etc.
The biggest issue has more to do with rendering and less to do with editing, though editing has it's fair share of issues.
Premiere is a great program with a lot going for it.
The moment someone has that breakthrough with running OSX software inside Linux, I predict we will have a mass migration.
As for the rendering issue, it boils down to codecs, and licensing.
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Qain picks up the position of project leader and gets up few volunteers to help out to implement rendering system. Describing the problem efficiently i think there is capable peolpe in the community to actually volunteers to help with the solution. What about GStreamer?
Follow note, actually it doesnt require to be Qain.. But atleast some specs are required to help out describing the problem.
I dont think the solution would be to emulate the software you are required to use.... Example; I dont use VS under wine because im just happy with make and gcc on linux.. Damn the corporate world with their licensing crap..
We actually have done many episodes using OBS on Linux. Kdenlive is also good, but it can't keep up with my 4k footage it seems.
TL:DR "I am because we are"
A little more on topic of the thread and not this particular issue, @Logan @DeusQain @wendell should create a giant open source project that all of us as tek syndicate junkies will participate in. We would all get together as a group and create software that solves the problems with the current software norm. This is what open source is all about. Making something better. So if there is not a good open source solution. Everyone bands together and builds it. Everyone complains about the linux community sucking, and for the most part they are right. So instead of moping around hating that fact. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. If everyone comes together to solve a problem, we will have an identity separate from what distro you use. People shouldnt be saying I'm an Ubuntu user, I'm an arch user, I'm a kali user, you should be saying you are a linux user. Have you all forgotten what ubuntu even means? "I am because we are" we are, computer enthusiasts, we are literally the entire future of the world. what advances we make today in the realm of computing decides what is capable for tomorrow.
rant over.
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Awesome rant. I like how Logan stated his opinion for this thing some ep of Tek.
Maybe I'll save up some money to build 4K machine and start developing some software to enable content creation at that scale. Though i current require some upgrade because running laptop with optimus tech.. So i have Nvidia card without use because GREAT Linux support. Well atleast i picked up it with i7 few years backwards. For the next computer I'll def build it myself..
I've been thinking to implement this type of software that the LTT described https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ96fLCGFRw