• nek0d3r@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Most issues stand, and fuck Windows generally, but honestly I don’t quite understand the issue with dropping support for older versions of Windows. Linux distros also do this, so much software does this, it’s just not practical or reasonable to manage all your versions of your software forever.

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      10 minutes ago

      The difference is that the Linux distros won’t force the user to upgrade with annoying popups or similar. The difference is that the newer versions of Linux distros won’t have hardware requirements that will force the user to buy a new Pc altogether and contributing to e-waste.

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        7 minutes ago

        The newer versions may be bad, but criticizing them for those bad features makes more sense than demonizing the concept of support cycles

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    15 hours ago

    Using this in a VM to work on some legacy software and it’s definitely a lot better than the standard at the moment

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    1 day ago

    Most of my stuff works on Linux now, so, yay. Currently only thing holding me back from doing a full switch is essentially video editing.

    My current go-to video editor is Vegas Pro, and it just works like an extension of me, for me. I’ve tried few editors on linux (kdenlive, davinci) but they’re either very limited/odd/user-error-id10t or just doesn’t support video formats I need (davinci, free version doesn’t support h264 or hevc, and not feeling like shelling north of 300 USD for it). Next up on my testing plate is Shotcut, but haven’t gotten around to it yet.

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      22 hours ago

      Check out Blender. It’s primarily a 3D modeling software like Maya or Houdini, but it has an incredibly powerful video editor built into it.

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        I do use blender quite a bit, but haven’t really used much of the video editor. Last time I tried it CTD’d contantly. If it has gotten stable, reasonable audio tools and gpu accelerated video output, it might be a contender.

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      I’ve used Shotcut on PopOS.

      Worked pretty well for doing something about as complex as a editing together a typical youtube video.

      Hell I even managed to get it to support h.265 after some tinkering. h264 and hevc worked as well.

      Also, in a similar vein… Krita is basically Photoshop from about a decade ago in terms of functionality, less outdated UI and more functional than GiMP, though its a bit chonkier (memory / CPU intensive).

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          Every single time I mention that Krita is basically an older version of photoshop, someone appears and says this.

          I never said its a photoshop clone, as in it has parity with modern photoshop.

          I said it can basically be used as one would have photoshop from a decade ago.

          This is true, no matter whether or not it was ‘designed with drawing and digital media creation in mind.’

          If you need something with more options and features than GiMP, or you don’t like GiMPs user interface… Krita works quite well.

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      I tried a few out and found that Flowblade worked best for me. If you’re only trimming and combining video though, you MUST check out Lossless Cut. It’s ridiculously fast.

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        thank you for the tip, will check it out.

        Essentially what I need is 3+ audiotracks, compressors for each and master. Then annotate with images/text whatever video there is. And yes it’s gameplay videos mostly.

        lossless cut not really a concern, but I’d like to have the end result rendered out fast, so nvenc (current hardware) or so would be grand.

        But, will expirement!

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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    Removing recall doesn’t break file explorer. Removing recall removes a dependency of File explorer for some reason. If you keep the dependency installed it works fine.

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      While true, this puts a lot of the assumptive burden on a lot of “normal/average humans” that don’t look beyond the desktop or browser to know more about How the OS works. That being said I agree with you and this should be higher.

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    it doesn’t let me install linux as dual-boot. I really tried everything you can imagine, always windows boots up

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      I have observed that many laptops are hard-coded to boot windows whenever possible. Even with windows bootentry missing, firmware will skip Grub set to first priority and start windows. Only way to make them start Grub is to rename bootmgfw.efi to a different name.

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        16 minutes ago

        i have msi gf63 thin 9sc. What should i renane it to? and in which efi partition? windows efi or garuda efi?

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      Probably has to do with secure boot and your Linux installation didn’t install a valid shim for uefi to boot it, thus it moves to the next entry which would be Windows.