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RE: Vlog #24 | Six Attempts Later, I Have Linux on My Chromebook! {<DtubeDaily>}
Wow, looks like the heat was a bigger problem than the install.
Been there done that, both the heat, and complicated linux installs.
Just not at the same time, for that is truly an accomplishment.
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Yeah man it was a scorcher of a day but had to get out on the bike before I punched a hole in my computer haha
Glad that my persistance paid of though. Still havn't gotten Davinci Resolve to run though. Really struggling with the Linux OS as I have not messed with it at all before this.
Do you use linux currently or was it more of a fun thing for you to play with?
Thanks for the follow my man! Will take a look at your posts here when I have a moment :)
Cheers!
I've got about 10 years of experience with Linux, but no experience with Davinci. (way above my pay grade)
I use Shotcut, for my craptacular videos.
You have accomplished the difficult task of installation, its usually much easier on a standard computer. Google hardware, like Apple and Microsoft doesn't always get along well with Linux.
What distro did you install, and what tutorial did you follow?
I am on a chromebook so I used crouton and installed xfce4 and i'm pretty certain the version is trusty.
This is the tutorial video I followed:
If its not running natively this is not ideal from a performance standpoint, but it might work well enough?
Trusty is pretty old, it may not be supported by Davinci.
Of course, since Davinci isn't "open source" you can't recompile it to make it work.
What’s a chroot?
Like virtualization, chroots provide the guest OS with their own, segregated file system to run in, allowing applications to run in a different binary environment from the host OS. Unlike virtualization, you are not booting a second OS; instead, the guest OS is running using the Chromium OS system. The benefit to this is that there is zero speed penalty since everything is run natively, and you aren’t wasting RAM to boot two OSes at the same time. The downside is that you must be running the correct chroot for your hardware, the software must be compatible with Chromium OS’s kernel, and machine resources are inextricably tied between the host Chromium OS and the guest OS. What this means is that while the chroot cannot directly access files outside of its view, it can access all of your hardware devices, including the entire contents of memory. A root exploit in your guest OS will essentially have unfettered access to the rest of Chromium OS.
Someone may have an answer here:
http://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/
Massive amounts of help! Thanks for taking the time to give me such a detailed response brother. I will see if my answers can be found in the forum that you provided. Just have to keep plugging at it and hopefully something will work!
I have been messing around with chroots and trying to sort them out. Honestly it's majorly confusing to me. I am trying to reinstall a different version than trusty but because that chroot exists I have to get rid of it before I can install another version. This is the main thing I am trying to sort out right now. Can't find a way to get rid of the existing trusty chroot. I've tried formatting the computer and getting it out of developer mode which is suppose to clear everything but the chroot is still embedded somewhere.
Ugh, yeah, I learned long ago to check for Linux compatabilty before I make any hardware purchases, just to avoid the exact headaches you are encountering.
If I needed high end hardware for serious video editing, I would be considering something from here:
https://system76.com/
I would love to see you get your existing hardware to work, I probably would have thrown in the towel already.
The hardware I am running is most likely to under powered to be able to perform with these editing software so throwing in the towel is looking more and more like what will happen haha
I am an incredibly persistant person so I will end up going through every outlet and option before I fully give up. I like the challenge but sometimes one must recognize that there is a limitation to everything.
These laptops look pretty top notch from system 76. Might be something I look into on a deeper level once I make my way back to the States.
I understand completely.
You have the right attitude, every problem can be solved, its mostly a time vs. effort tradeoff.
Computer hardware changes all the time, and many mainstream manufacturers also have decent hardware, I've had good experiences with Asus, Dell, HP and even Lenovo.
Like everything, it needs research.