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What is the best Arch Linux for graphics and editing videos? And why?(self)
10 commentsbyJasonCarswell

Metatags: GraphicDesign, Linux, Projex, VideoProduction

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What is the best Arch Linux for graphics and editing videos? And why?

I've been convinced that Arch Linux is the best because it has timelines with rolling updates and rollbacks or whatever, rather than having to backup, clear out, and start over. Maybe I'm wrong on this.

I'm looking for the best flavour of Arch Linux for video production.

Other contenders are non-woke distros, like OpenMandriva, Devuan, Omarchy, and GhostBSD.

So far I have this (haven't read any yet):

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[-]x0x72(+2|0)

Arch linux in general is less focused on flavors that are meant for a specific thing. Manjaro is pretty much the only opinionated fork of Arch. Arch is all about selecting the software you want. So all Arch flavors are equally good for graphics work. Just install whatever graphics software you want. And I'd say Arch is very good for graphics work because its repos are focused on making all of the software available, having the newest version of everything so you get all the features, and ease of install of individual packages. So the software availability is going to be the best.

Any flavors of Arch are going to be focused on some kind of core internal. Like Artix not having systemd.

The Arch community (besides Manjaro) emphisizes using dotfiles for nearly out of the box opinionated evironment setup and artwork. This seperates art direction from system stability. You can get the art setup you want off of github. Now people who are good at art do art. And system and package stability can be managed by people who are good at that. This is why Arch ends up making a more stable system for PC use than Ubuntu despite using a rolling release. But people who want an artful system still use Arch because the best setups are going to be published by people who only do art and Arch is a blank slate to deploy dotfiles on.

tl;dr: The arch community doesn't really do front facing flavors. Flavor management, in terms of art and environment, in the arch world, is done as a seperate layer. This would be an example: https://github.com/HynDuf/dotfiles

I couldn't find a "video editing dotfiles" repo. But I think if you know what software you want to use that might help with searching for a particular environment setup.

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[-]JasonCarswell1(+1|0)

Thanks!!!

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[-]WinstonSmith2(+2|0)

Manjaro Linux for stability and ease of use. I recommend updating from the terminal with the following command: 'sudo pacman -Syu'. It's more verbose than the GUI and will tell you if something goes wrong. You'll have to update on a weekly basis though. On my end, I've been it using for 2 years at least and haven't encountered any major issues aside from light bugs which are par for the course with Linux.

There's also Ubuntu Studio which bundles some graphics and media production apps but it's based on Debian. I haven't tried that one so I can't tell you what the user experience is like.

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[-]JasonCarswell2(+2|0)

Thanks!!!

You'll have to update on a weekly basis though.

Ooof.
I suppose I could develop a good digital hygiene maintenance habit.
Is this the rolling update thing?

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[-]WinstonSmith1(+1|0)

Yes. There are no major releases or upgrades, just a cycle of continuous updates. And sometimes, rollbacks...when a newer package from an update is problematic. But the package manager takes care of that.

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[-]beenPoisoned1(+1|0)

Wegovy

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[-]JasonCarswell1(+1|0)

And why?

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[-]beenPoisoned0(0|0)

because manjaro sounds like mounjaro :D

OS != video editing app. does not matter.

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[-]WinstonSmith1(+1|0)

As for the 'why?', Manjaro has the latest packages so it has better hardware support. There's GIMP and Inkscape for graphics and Kdenlive for video editing. But those packages are available regardless of the distro you're using.

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[-]JasonCarswell1(+1|0)

Currently I'm willing to learn any new image/video/audio package that has promise. I know GIMP and Inkscape well enough (but can't quite kick Photoshop, Illustrator, especially AfterEffects, and their hotkeys just yet - but plan to when I commit to Linux), and aim to learn Blender, DaVinci, Krita, and a few others. Plus audio and podcasting.

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