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.
Can it be done? Yes.
Can it be done in a reliable way that you can depend on to always just work when you need it? No.
If you are completely dependent on Adobe products for your livelihood, you should not plan to work exclusively on Linux.
This was my experience with Photoshop. Got it installed, tried a few things, great, seems to work. Then eventually I went to actually use it, and it would consistently crash trying to do certain tasks. Back to dual boot I go…
Better off using native Linux applications. We have DaVinci Resolve, Lightworks, Blender, and Kdenlive. All are fantastic video editors that can give you very professional results.
Personally I use Kdenlive:
- Doesn’t require GPU
- Automatic subtitles
- Support for LUTs
- Nested timelines
- Proxy/Offline editing
- Warp stabilizer
- Free and Open Source
It’s probably the most feature complete FOSS editor.
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The feature was part of the April release. That and Open AI Whisper support for subtitles.
If you’ve to work with other people and/or you really need the Adobe tools my best advice if to forget it. Emulation and stuff like Wine, Bottles, Crossover is all cool until you try to install MS Office and it doesn’t work properly or Photoshop doesn’t work because it fails to identify the screen size. You can’t simply run those programs for everyday usage under Linux with good results.
VM is your best bet for adobe stuff. You’d need GPU passthrough for proper hardware acceleration annoyingly.
Maybe dualbooting from Windows for those might be better until Proton and WINE can get resources to support Adobe stuff again!
just use a vm ,possibly with GPU passthrough
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.
Huh? Any GPU is “compatible” and the experience is basically same as bare metal
Last time I looked into passthrough (for qemu), it was non-trivial to set up, though. Has that gotten any easier?
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.
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).
If it isn’t that it means it isn’t decent software :D
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
Ahaha very funny. So tell me, how are you passing the image from the passthrough GPU back to your system?
i dont think this question makes sense. also whats funny about vfio?
Looking Glass and IddSampleDriver. A second monitor would work just fine too.
Looking Glass
Does it work reliably for you? I also experienced some form of slow down / frame dropping.
I don’t game on Windows, but yes, it isn’t as smooth as native apps.
That’s my issue there. Can’t use it for graphical work and frankly I even notice it with MS Office.
They crash enough on Windows already, I would highly recommend against it! :/
I use Kdenlive.
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=128
It is not rated well on winedb, although those look like old versions?. I would not have much hope in it working for professional needs . You would be better served by learning one of the more open or Linux friendly alternatives instead. Quite a few are quite good now for different needs. You would need to try them out your self to see if they meet your needs though. Which you can typically do on windows to minimise the disruption to your work flows. But be warned it can take some time to relearn them.
It’s not viable, doesn’t run well or at all through wine and in VMs it’s slow at best…
There will be massive performance issues due to driver support and in the way modern Adobe apps use the GPU to handle a lot of the work. Over the past few years as GPU’s have become insanely powerful, Adobe have retooled a lot of their apps to make use of that number-crunching - before you could bruteforce it with a decent CPU but now a lot of program functions are handled by the graphics card - even things like canvas scaling and rotation are only active using the GPU.
Until Adobe make native versions (and there is corresponding driver support - nVidia run drivers built specifically for creative apps like those from Adobe and Autodesk), I wouldn’t even consider using Linux for any type of creative work, to be honest.
I wouldn’t even consider using Linux for any type of creative work, to be honest.
I create schematics and PCBs on it all the time. But that’s more engineering, not media and art.
Not only that. If all you need to deal with are still images Inkscape, Krita and to some extent GIMP are quite enough for my students, and I teach at an art university.
Agreed. I’ve been designing professionally since 2009, and have switched my workflow to 100% FLOSS tools. Scribus, Inkscape, and Krita are suitable for professional work these days.
