Nick @ The Linux ExperimentApr 19, 2023

I upgraded my main laptop to #Fedora 38. One click in the Software Center, it downloaded everything in about 5 minutes, and the upgrade itself took around the same amount of time. Everything works after rebooting, except the Quick Settings Tweaker and Dark mode switcher extensions, which are not crucial, so I’d say it was pretty damn smooth! I’m always amazed at how simple our desktops have become these days…

Will upgrade the desktop today as well!

Show threadNick @ The Linux ExperimentApr 19, 2023
Spoke too soon, Resolve doesn’t run, it throws a symbol lookup error linked to libpango. So I won’t be upgrading the desktop just yet, I guess!
Show threadNick @ The Linux ExperimentApr 19, 2023

Also, this is why I can’t wait for deb, rpm, .run or .bin formats to die, at least for applications. If Resolve was a Flatpak, a Snap or an Appimage, it would have had no issues surviving the upgrade. It would have come with the versions it needs. It would install and run on any distro without additional packages to install manually.

App Developers: use these new formats, you’ll do yourself, and your users a favor.

Show threadmrscientific

@thelinuxEXP
For now, maybe you could try a distrobox? Whenever I have an issue like that, that's my solution (assuming no flatpak).

That way, you don't have to wait for it to work in a specific distro. Of course that's just my solution, may or may not work for you.

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Show threadNick @ The Linux ExperimentApr 19, 2023
@mrscientific Does a distro box have full access to the GPU? I would just need it to run Resolve, but withou openCL and the Nvidia GPU, it won’t run :/
Show threadLeafletApr 19, 2023
@thelinuxEXP @mrscientific I believe that it does have access, but things are more complicated if you're using Nvidia, at least when I last tried.
Show threadabstrmApr 19, 2023
@that_leaflet @thelinuxEXP @mrscientific I'd go with toolbx rather than distrobox in this case (presumably setting up a Fedora 37 environment). (Distrobox is useful for running a different distro in a container though.)
Show threadmrscientificApr 19, 2023

@abstrm @that_leaflet @thelinuxEXP
Yeah I think you need to do a few things like have an nvidia flag to get it working, though I haven't had to do it myself.

As for toolbox, my personal preference is to just use a distrobox because of the export feature, so I haven't used toolbox.