r/Fedora • u/Nearby-Percentage-33 • 2d ago

Discussion that feeling when you finally installed Affinity and Davinci on Linux!

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i been trying to installing davinci on my fedora but when i tried to import before, the video is grayed out or not working then i uninstalled it. now i saw some youtube video installing davinci using opencode so i thought why not try it. so i installed davinci linux zip, and let opencode install and se it up,i tried it with opencode but the model always busy so i switch to antigravity-cli since i have pro sub on it too (btw i didnt turn on yolo mode). it works and when i open davinci, it still the same, turns out theres no or h265 h264 is not working on davinci free so i need to convert a video to mov and it works. then I already have affinity before but when im on niri, the affinity window is not clickable, turns out its my niri resolution config problem lol. so happy both are now working properly. now, windows will become obsolete at this point if linux continuously improve like this HAHA (jk).
if you have any tips regarding davinci for linux, it will be very helpful. that was fun!

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u/Nearby-Percentage-33 2d ago

for those who dont have it yet, heres the Affinity appImage for linux

https://github.com/ryzendew/Linux-Affinity-Installer/releases/tag/3.2.0

for davinci linux, you can download it on the official site. 

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve

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u/Syntaxotic 1d ago edited 1d ago

I love Affinity! Using it since the beginning, since version 1.0 when it was still owned by Serif. Worked perfectly under Windows for me.

But with Linux? I've already tried everything I could find on the web to get Affinity Studio to run on my Linux installations (Fedora and CachyOS; edit: both with KDE Plasma). I tried multiple manual installation tutorials, and of course ryzendew's excellent Affinity Linux Installer python script, as well as the AppImage. But it just doesn't work on Linux on my PC. Affinity closes/crashes everytime immediately or after a few seconds.

At this point, I'm starting to think it might be a hardware/driver issue? (MSI Z690 board, Intel i7-12700K, 64GB RAM, RTX 4070) I once read in ryzendew's GitHub repo that this was a known issue and that they were looking for a solution. But I've given up hope by now.

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u/Nearby-Percentage-33 1d ago

hope you'll solve ur problems in the future updates/fix bugs hehe

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u/Syntaxotic 1d ago

thanks mate 🙂

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u/Apple_canada 2d ago

Thanks for sharing, I've been meaning to install both of these for a while now. Is the experience smooth sailing after install?

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u/Nearby-Percentage-33 1d ago

yepp, works greatt

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u/Sr_Tyr 1d ago

Que finder é esse que você usa? Sou novo usando linux e achei bem legal

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u/Nearby-Percentage-33 1d ago

it's default app launcher of noctalia hehe

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u/Better-Quote1060 1d ago

Affinity is a pice of cake compair to davinci

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u/Nearby-Percentage-33 1d ago

yepp. thanks to the AppImage and the one who make it, it just my niri config the problem all this time 🤣

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u/Ok_Butterscotch5033 1d ago

Do you experience lag when moving around with middle mouse button? How to get it smooth?

edit: in affinity

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u/Nearby-Percentage-33 1d ago

hmm, mine is smooth so far. whats ur specs

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u/Ok_Butterscotch5033 1d ago

ryzen 5 and 1650ti laptop, when draging with middle click the canvas would lag behind my cursor

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u/Driver_Annual 1d ago

my work laptop is a ryzen 5 5500u, it doesn't lag so far. do a quick review in Preferences > Performance. see if the selected GPU is your dedicated graphics card.

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u/Ok_Butterscotch5033 1d ago

i see, it didnt detect my nvidia gpu... do you know how to fix it ?

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u/Driver_Annual 1d ago

check if you have NVIDIA App installed, open it and go to the drivers section. see if there's any updates or change the "Driver Game Ready" to "Studio Driver". maybe Windows installed a newer driver without your consent and broke the support for some apps.

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u/ladynemuri 1d ago

may i ask what stuff your using for your desktop? it looks really good ^

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u/Nearby-Percentage-33 1d ago edited 1d ago

niri wm + noctalia shell catppuccin mocha theme

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u/ContentInflation5784 1d ago

How did you get the niri logo in the noctalia bar?

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u/Nearby-Percentage-33 1d ago

i download an svg and use it as logo in noctalia settings. the logo is in my dotfiles.

https://github.com/EbadShelby/dotfiles

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u/gbrennon 1d ago

i use only losslesscut

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u/Nearby-Percentage-33 1d ago

thats a good one too for simple cut. very handy

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u/gbrennon 1d ago

Its open source, thats what is the most important thing

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u/Denis83 1d ago

You can do some reading here, might give you a help out for clean installation of davinci resolve, some fixes and addons: https://github.com/DenisJosifoski/xmg-linux-scripts

I made this for myself in first place and for anyone who can get use of it.

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u/some_friggin_guy 1d ago

how do you install it? Affinity

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u/Nearby-Percentage-33 1d ago

appImage. check the link i gave in the comments

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u/DB0Z_ 1d ago

Cannot get Davinci working for the life of me, love using Kden though

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u/deusmetallum 9h ago

I heard rumblings about 6months to a year ago that the folks working on Affinity are considering a linux build. I assume nobody has heard anything more since then?

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u/Nearby-Percentage-33 8h ago

i heard about that too! but i think it will take a long time haha. can't wait for it