Rocky Linux is a free, open source operating system that’s binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It’s also the replacement for CentOS, and the only Linux distro now supported by the DaVinci Resolve video editor, compositor and colour correction application. This video introduces Rocky Linux, with a focus on creating a setup with DaVinci Resolve successfully installed on a PC with an NVIDIA graphics card.
Rocky Linux is available from:
DaVinci Resolve is available from:
The VFX Platform website is here:
My previous “Linux Video Production” video, in which I ran DaVinci Resolve, Autograph and related applications in Ubuntu, is here:
Oh, and you can also find all of my Linux distro reviews and Linux guides on this page:
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Chapters:
00:00 Titles & Intro
01:06 Replacing CentOS
05:16 Installation
08:46 NVIDIA Setup
11:44 Blackmagic Design Rocky Linux Install
20:34 DaVinci Resolve Install
24:29 Very Stable
27:26 Wrap
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I've just ordered the new The Spectrum.
I always wanted one as a kid, but I got a ZX81 followed by a C16.
Now 40 years later I've bought the reboot.
Hopefully it's easier to set up than this 😂
Excellent video. I'm not sure why you went through the install of RL 9.4. Can this not just be done with the DV supplied 8.x ISO to do a bare metal install? Accoring to the DV web, the GPU acceleration only works on the paid version, or the free version on Apple. So, if you had an integrated intel or AMD GPU which does the resolution you want, would you get similar results? I guess you had an NVIDIA only on this box so had no choice but the thing would really only fly if you paid tour USD295? From what I can see, if you want recent NVIDIA drivers, you have to do some terminal tapping on Ubuntu based as well.
So many steps and so convoluted. Its this type of thing that insures Linux will not be overtaking Windows anytime soon.
What a faff!
Wow. Never heard about Rocky Linux. Supporting DaVinci Resolve Install is an important thing. I use Zorin OS do to feel like Windows. I don't know if it will do that.
How will Rocky and DaVinci Resolve will work on an acer laptop with the Intel that have the IrisXe graphic chip?
Excellent, thanks. All the extras, terminal commands, etc. brings back the days of RedHat 3.x when I first played with Linux a LONG time ago… 🙂
One way of ending up between a rock and a hard place.
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Pure genius.
Goodbye Windows & Linux. I think I'll dust off my BBC B. I'll use Wordwise Plus as my word processor, Acorn Sheet for my spreadsheet and I can play Chuckie Egg, Frak and Repton while I formulate ink for my dot matrix printer. Anyone got any 5.2in floppies. I am joking though I still have my BBC B 😄
Excellent Chris.
Thanks for doing a Rocky Linux tutorial, not a lot of them for it.
This is exactly the type of Linux video that keeps people on Windows. What a palava! Sheesh.
I found fix for updating/installing Davinci on Linux mint to version 19.03 no more issues.
May I stop u here sir. I have no idea where did you get stats like content creator workstations using rocky. . . at all . . . .but that would literally make no sense.
Latest rocky linux 9.4 runs kernel 5.14 from over 3 years ago. Official repository has exactly "f*-all" amount of software and whatever is there is 2-3 years old. (luckly with exception to office and firefox). This system barely works on my 3 year old ryzen 3700x machine complaining all the time about using unsupported drivers, its even too old for virtual box guest additions to work. When it is working, system feels extremely sluggish compared to modern distros, especialy considering i tested mate desktop version which should be lighter. It took 35 minutes to install even tho it comes bundled with barely any software at all . . .
I fail to see, at all, how a company would spend big grands of money on equipping editors with state of the art i9 or other threadrippers, with NVteslas, firegls etc because for them encoding time actualy IS money to then attempt instalation of 3 year old system that is by default literally incapable of even copying photos from camera. Not even mentioning supporting the auxiliary audio-visiual hardware an editor might want to use.
Developer might actualy be doing some gaming project too yet theres no wine or steam, my attempts on building stuff manualy for the system usualy ended with software not being able to find stuff for kernel this old.
You sir have installed and suggested installing an EVEN OLDER version . . . which I cant approve at all.
It makes all the more sense to use any of the newer distros that have out of the box davinci support while giving maximum hardware support and more software to begin with like nobara. Linux community has to burry the notion of " few and old af = rock stable". Thats like using windows 8 with everything removed except for notepad.exe and claiming its the bestest of stability for developers.
Nice to see you navigate a little bit of complexity for upgrading (though, I must say, Linux complexity seems to pale in comparison to Windows complexity). i noticed that Rocky is running Xorg – was that somehting you chose? I'm not sure if the nvidia code works with Wayland yet – but since I moved to Wayland I've really come to appreciate it. Good show – great content – you always have a way of showing how simple these things can really be.
Well done. Still today all of this faffing around is vital – so thanks for your vital help.
can you make a comparison with the same hardware platform+davinci project between windows and rocky? thanks
A little contribution to the tea fund. 🙂
Hopefully, Blackmagic update the Linux distro they provide
I know this channel is primarily about hardware and the software that goes with it
but if you're looking at video editors how about something called … WeVideo
which is a cloud-based editing system maybe you could use it and tell us how it compares with local hardware. & software solutions ??
Ah, finally you're talking about Rocky Linux this time.
I've some non-critical servers switched from CentOS 8 to Rocky in 2020, and so far I'm good with them. I really appreciate the effort they put on keep it bug-for-bug compatible with RHEL with the pressure coming from RH or maybe IBM.
Hopefully, long live the Rocky Linux, as part of our Enterprise Linux options.
I'm now even using Rocky 9 lxc containers in Debian bookworm since I'm really keen on the CentOS style config files. You don't have to learn too much new configs for new daemons in the new releases like other distros, you always know what you should do and what's gonna happen in a CentOS.
Fantastic, Chris. Many thanks for showing us how to get all this set up properly. This is video has gone straight into my Saved list as I will be investigating this myself soon. Now, if only you could get the Affinity Suite working on the same system, that would be enough for me to ditch Windows completely as I really don't want to have to upgrade my one remaining Windows install (currently on 10) to Windows 11 because of all the issues people are having with 24H2!
Is it possible to duel boot Mint and Rocky? (That sounds like a new ice cream flavor.)
Great stuff, I've been asking for this video for last 2 years 😀
I need some help. I have a windows 10 host, and wish use an engineering software that's only supported in rhel. So naturally, I created a virtual machine and installed rhel. The setup files for the software are in Windows and having watched a previous video on this channel about sharing files between the host and vm, I thought I could pull it off. However, it doesn't work on my machine. The virtualization software I use is vmware, and set up rhel 9.4 with the "server with gui" option. I can only copy paste text between the OS's and files with KB size. Files even 2MB large copied from the windows host make the rhel file Explorer shut itself down. I have enabled a shared folder but it doesn't appear in the vm. Is there any fix for this?
I find it rather surprising/disappointing that the ISO provided by Blackmagic Design does not have Davinci Resolve already preinstalled including all other requirements (like the xcb-util-cursor package from the rpmfusion repo). Whats the point of this ISO in the first place?
That was an excellent video. However I will not be running DaVinci Resolve on Rocky. I quit using Centos long ago and never looked back. I had the unfortunate experience back in the 1980's of splitting my time between two systems. A Motorola system running System V Unix and a workstation running BSD. System V sucked in a similar way to Centos. IMHO. Thanks for confirming that my opinion of Red Hat like systems are still trash and not worth exploring.