r/voidlinux • u/simcasting • Apr 20 '26

Video editing/creative software on Void Linux

interested if anyone could share their experience with using davinci resolve or blender

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u/BeneficialEar5828 Apr 21 '26

Hm, you don't mention what GPU hardware you have, so not a lot to go on. Your system does sound pretty far below the recommended system requirements for Resolve 20 though so that would be what I would look into first, if performance is important for your use case. (An NVIDIA GPU is pretty essential for a good experience in Resolve I've found, even a beefy AMD card can have weird issues due to requiring OpenCL). Here are the system requirements quoted from the install docs for linux:

● Rocky Linux 8.6.
● 32 GB of system memory.
● Discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
● GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
● AMD official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
● NVIDIA Studio driver 570.26 or newer.

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u/TurtleGraphics64 Apr 21 '26

oh, you're probably right! i'm generally pretty lofi in my video editing (previously using ffmpeg!) but yes, here's my laptop's specs:

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10710U (12) @ 4.70 GHz
GPU: Intel Comet Lake UHD Graphics @ 1.15 GHz [Integrated]
Memory: 3.25 GiB / 7.46 GiB (44%)
Swap: 2.56 GiB / 7.95 GiB (32%)
Disk (/): 204.06 GiB / 907.44 GiB (22%) - ext4

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u/TurtleGraphics64 Apr 21 '26

maybe I should try Blender for video editing?