I’m keeping it broad by not specifying a distro. I’m just curious is this a real option for actual editing professionals? As far as I understand you can make it work by running under Wine, but I’m guessing this comes with significant drawbacks. I’m having trouble finding any information on both the current state of things with running Premiere under linux (most info seems to be from 2018 for some reason), and the extent of the drawbacks in a quantifiable way.

I’m generally a pretty happy Mac OS user, but I always want to keep options open. I haven’t really tried to use Linux on desktop since the late 00s.

    • TCB13@lemmy.world
      75·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, build your own desktop, carefully pick a compatible GPU and then deal with access issues to the VM. Most ways to access the image coming out of the VM are either slow or glitchy. Unfortunately this isn’t a solution for people who need to do their daily jobs on those programs.

      • stappern@lemmy.one
        94·
        1 year ago

        Huh? Any GPU is “compatible” and the experience is basically same as bare metal

        • nyan@lemmy.cafe
          6·
          1 year ago

          Last time I looked into passthrough (for qemu), it was non-trivial to set up, though. Has that gotten any easier?

          • Awwab@kbin.social
            8·
            1 year ago

            It’s not something I would trust my mother to be able to setup but if you are a regular Linux user then it shouldn’t be too hard for you.

            • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
              2·
              1 year ago

              And it’s a one-time setup. Once it’s working, it’ll keep working, unless wondering drastically changes with iommub groups or something (i.e. check before doing major BIOS updates).

          • stappern@lemmy.one
            2·
            1 year ago

            i think its mostly the same but now its easier to separate the iommu groups because i think the ACS patch was upstreamed? so id give it a try

        • TCB13@lemmy.world
          14·
          1 year ago

          Ahaha very funny. So tell me, how are you passing the image from the passthrough GPU back to your system?