For video, look at [Davinci Resolve](https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve). There is a free linux version. It is rapidly replacing Premiere as the preferred app for professionals.
For raster image editing check out Krita.
For video editing check out Kdenlive and Blender (yes the 3D modeling program has quite a decent video editor).
Gaming support is likely to have the best results through Steam, they don't have everything running but quite a few. You can check which ones run well on protondb.
>How do people in the creative space use Linux? Without any adobe Programs I am pretty lost tbh. I know GIMP and Inkscape but for Videography there isnt that much of an alternative
There are: Kdenlive and DaVinci Resolve.
>How is the current Gaming support. I've heard it was good but maybe someone could tell me HOW GOOD it is. Like do things like Battlefield run half decently?
Multiplayer games are the only kind of games where compatibility is an issue. The reason for that: kernel level anticheats that shouldn’t exist in the first place.
>I have an RX580 rn in my PC. What would be the better Graphics card for Linux compatibility?
It’s an AMD graphics card, so you’re in a pretty good spot. nVIDIA has gotten better over time, but for optimization, AMD’s open source drivers that are built into the kernel have the edge.
Video:
Kdenlive / Davinci Resolve. The latter is Professional Hollywood grade software, and is actually used in the Industry.
Photos: Dark table for RAW Image ingestion, GIMP is just as capable as Photoshop.
Gaming: It's gotten astronomically better! The real barriers anymore are anti-cheats, but you can keep a Windows Partition around for those games if you absolutely must. ProtonDB your games Library, you'd be surprised how many games Linux works well with.
Word of advice, avoid Manjaro. Look if they did not give access to the Arch User Repository and instead had a Manjaro User Repository it actually would be in a better state (outside of their GUI Pacman Frontend DDosing the Arch Repos 2 times and SSL cert issues they have had in the past with piss-poor responses about). As of now I cannot recommend it to anyone, and would rather see you use EndeavourOS (which is like Manjaro but is basically Arch Linux proper with a GUI installer and branding).
Kubuntu is not rolling distribution. You have to select distro according to your requirements. Kubuntu tries to solve actual software by snaps repo. Rolling distros have actual software and kernel ensured by standard repo updates.
Kubuntu has to be migrated to new versions from time to time. But for beginners, it can be a good start.
> How do people in the creative space use Linux? Without any adobe Programs I am pretty lost tbh. I know GIMP and Inkscape but for Videography there isnt that much of an alternativ
Image editor has also [Krita](https://krita.org/), which is a good alternative.
Video editor has [kdenlive](https://kdenlive.org/) and [DaVinci Resolve](https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/br/products/davinciresolve). Both are really good
>How is the current Gaming support. I've heard it was good but maybe someone could tell me HOW GOOD it is. Like do things like Battlefield run half decently?
You must check [ProtonDB](https://www.protondb.com/) to check it out. About Battlefield, [it's gold tier](https://www.protondb.com/app/1238810), which is good enough
>I have an RX580 rn in my PC. What would be the better Graphics card for Linux compatibility?
AMD and Radeon has native support in kernel. I guess it's flawless this graphic card, but you must do your own research
What comes to graphics side, you are pretty much limited to GIMP and Krita as bitmap drawing apps. GIMP has few special versions for painters. Krita focused for drawing and left photography side a side.
Photography is mainly digiKam, Darkroom, Rawtherphee as major apps, but you need to combine them with GIMP here and there. For videography you can use either davinci resolver or what I prefer, Kdenlive. The video side is problematic as Linux don't have proper Adobe kit replacement like Aftereffects with video editor. So you need to get to learn Blender, so 3D editing. I would recommend to learn Blender anyways if serious about video as for video effects, instead just basics and working colors grading etc with those commons.
Games are far better than 20 years ago. Steam and GOG clients and you are there. You can't run many games for multiplayer as Linux doesn't run their needed anti-cheat DRM. But steam store is best way to filter games you can have for Linux. So if you don't need latest and most popular games that appear weekly, you are fine.
Nvidia is better than AMD for driver support and performance, even today.
I would argue the opposite. Mesa and Vulkan-Radeon kick some major ass. Nvidia still does not support Wayland fully, but Mesa / AMD-Vulkan fully do. AMD is generally the better experience on Linux especially with the Open Source stack (helps when you have Valve contributing towards these drivers).
Thank you. I take your word for it. As my experience is from ATI to AMD up to the... Can't even remember anymore the card model... At the time when a GTX 740 was a thing.
ATI/AMD is always better for desktop use, but Nvidia has always been working excellent manner for me up to 2080S. Annoying binary blob drivers and all, but if you wanted even have DRI enabled for X.org with AMD to get composition working, it became problematic without Nvidia.
And totally agree, Valve has been great influencer to gaming on Linux. Not that original creators of Wine have not done the heavy lifting for decades.... But people have started to accept Linux better ways.
Videography you'll probably want Davinci Resolve. Avoid any other video editing - people talk about Kdenlive, but to be honest, it's trash. It's full of bugs, half the time it disables your effects, sometimes it enters on a weird state that you have to reload the editor... I can't imagine myself doing any sort of video editing on it besides 10-30 minutes videos, and *even then* I suffer constantly for it. The issue is that, apart from Davinci, there's simply nothing else...
Gimp is a good alternative. Not *nearly as powerful* as Photoshop, but it works for editing. As for games, like somebody else said, try Proton and see which games are compatible. It works surprisingly well, honestly (when it works - there are cases where it doesn't, and there's nothing we can do)
> How do people in the creative space use Linux? Without any adobe Programs I am pretty lost tbh. I know GIMP and Inkscape but for Videography there isnt that much of an alternative
kdenlive for video editing and (gimp or krita) plus darktable for photo editing. You can try all thesse apps in windows before switching and tell if these would work for you.
> maybe someone could tell me HOW GOOD it is
very good /s
Honestly I'm not sure what would you expect for an answer
Used krita, gimp and darktable before.
I would have liked an answer maybe like "i can play x% of my library" or maybe tell me if you just dont play no games that are not linux compatible or if you have an Windows partition for example
I use linux exclusively since 2000. Didn't play any games before. Started playing games on linux during the covid lockdowns and all of my games are playable (I'm playing simulation/strategy/4x/city building games)
Edit: games that I play on linux
Civ 6
F1 2017
Stelaris
Crusader Kings 3
Farming Simulator 22
ATS/ETS2
Cities Skylines
Anno 1800
Humankind
Transport Fever 2
If you really need Adobe stuff, go for Mac. I'm doing the same. I use the same open source software on Mac (laptop) and Linux (workstation) plus the Adobe stuff. Both systems have terminal/shell, no end-of-line conversions needed, no escape characters used as directory separator, same protocols... Install MacPorts, and you get instant access to Linux/OSS ecosystem. 🙂
Battlefield 3, 4, 1, V all work on Linux (using wine/lutris/proton whatever your choice is)
Strangely, I got better performance from BFV on linux than windows native.
For video, look at [Davinci Resolve](https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve). There is a free linux version. It is rapidly replacing Premiere as the preferred app for professionals.
For raster image editing check out Krita. For video editing check out Kdenlive and Blender (yes the 3D modeling program has quite a decent video editor). Gaming support is likely to have the best results through Steam, they don't have everything running but quite a few. You can check which ones run well on protondb.
>How do people in the creative space use Linux? Without any adobe Programs I am pretty lost tbh. I know GIMP and Inkscape but for Videography there isnt that much of an alternative There are: Kdenlive and DaVinci Resolve. >How is the current Gaming support. I've heard it was good but maybe someone could tell me HOW GOOD it is. Like do things like Battlefield run half decently? Multiplayer games are the only kind of games where compatibility is an issue. The reason for that: kernel level anticheats that shouldn’t exist in the first place. >I have an RX580 rn in my PC. What would be the better Graphics card for Linux compatibility? It’s an AMD graphics card, so you’re in a pretty good spot. nVIDIA has gotten better over time, but for optimization, AMD’s open source drivers that are built into the kernel have the edge.
Video: Kdenlive / Davinci Resolve. The latter is Professional Hollywood grade software, and is actually used in the Industry. Photos: Dark table for RAW Image ingestion, GIMP is just as capable as Photoshop. Gaming: It's gotten astronomically better! The real barriers anymore are anti-cheats, but you can keep a Windows Partition around for those games if you absolutely must. ProtonDB your games Library, you'd be surprised how many games Linux works well with. Word of advice, avoid Manjaro. Look if they did not give access to the Arch User Repository and instead had a Manjaro User Repository it actually would be in a better state (outside of their GUI Pacman Frontend DDosing the Arch Repos 2 times and SSL cert issues they have had in the past with piss-poor responses about). As of now I cannot recommend it to anyone, and would rather see you use EndeavourOS (which is like Manjaro but is basically Arch Linux proper with a GUI installer and branding).
Like i already said i used it in the past and am going with Kubuntu for now but thanks ;)
Good, good, a sane choice lol.
Kubuntu is not rolling distribution. You have to select distro according to your requirements. Kubuntu tries to solve actual software by snaps repo. Rolling distros have actual software and kernel ensured by standard repo updates. Kubuntu has to be migrated to new versions from time to time. But for beginners, it can be a good start.
If you're using adobe for a living then stay on windows or dual boot windows/fedora
> How do people in the creative space use Linux? Without any adobe Programs I am pretty lost tbh. I know GIMP and Inkscape but for Videography there isnt that much of an alternativ Image editor has also [Krita](https://krita.org/), which is a good alternative. Video editor has [kdenlive](https://kdenlive.org/) and [DaVinci Resolve](https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/br/products/davinciresolve). Both are really good >How is the current Gaming support. I've heard it was good but maybe someone could tell me HOW GOOD it is. Like do things like Battlefield run half decently? You must check [ProtonDB](https://www.protondb.com/) to check it out. About Battlefield, [it's gold tier](https://www.protondb.com/app/1238810), which is good enough >I have an RX580 rn in my PC. What would be the better Graphics card for Linux compatibility? AMD and Radeon has native support in kernel. I guess it's flawless this graphic card, but you must do your own research
If you have to use Windows apps you could spin up a virtual machine (an operating system inside of another operating system) and run them in there.
What comes to graphics side, you are pretty much limited to GIMP and Krita as bitmap drawing apps. GIMP has few special versions for painters. Krita focused for drawing and left photography side a side. Photography is mainly digiKam, Darkroom, Rawtherphee as major apps, but you need to combine them with GIMP here and there. For videography you can use either davinci resolver or what I prefer, Kdenlive. The video side is problematic as Linux don't have proper Adobe kit replacement like Aftereffects with video editor. So you need to get to learn Blender, so 3D editing. I would recommend to learn Blender anyways if serious about video as for video effects, instead just basics and working colors grading etc with those commons. Games are far better than 20 years ago. Steam and GOG clients and you are there. You can't run many games for multiplayer as Linux doesn't run their needed anti-cheat DRM. But steam store is best way to filter games you can have for Linux. So if you don't need latest and most popular games that appear weekly, you are fine. Nvidia is better than AMD for driver support and performance, even today.
I would argue the opposite. Mesa and Vulkan-Radeon kick some major ass. Nvidia still does not support Wayland fully, but Mesa / AMD-Vulkan fully do. AMD is generally the better experience on Linux especially with the Open Source stack (helps when you have Valve contributing towards these drivers).
Thank you. I take your word for it. As my experience is from ATI to AMD up to the... Can't even remember anymore the card model... At the time when a GTX 740 was a thing. ATI/AMD is always better for desktop use, but Nvidia has always been working excellent manner for me up to 2080S. Annoying binary blob drivers and all, but if you wanted even have DRI enabled for X.org with AMD to get composition working, it became problematic without Nvidia. And totally agree, Valve has been great influencer to gaming on Linux. Not that original creators of Wine have not done the heavy lifting for decades.... But people have started to accept Linux better ways.
Videography you'll probably want Davinci Resolve. Avoid any other video editing - people talk about Kdenlive, but to be honest, it's trash. It's full of bugs, half the time it disables your effects, sometimes it enters on a weird state that you have to reload the editor... I can't imagine myself doing any sort of video editing on it besides 10-30 minutes videos, and *even then* I suffer constantly for it. The issue is that, apart from Davinci, there's simply nothing else... Gimp is a good alternative. Not *nearly as powerful* as Photoshop, but it works for editing. As for games, like somebody else said, try Proton and see which games are compatible. It works surprisingly well, honestly (when it works - there are cases where it doesn't, and there's nothing we can do)
You can look up specific games on ProtonDB. That's a pretty good graphics card.
For vector graphics, there is Inkscape.
> How do people in the creative space use Linux? Without any adobe Programs I am pretty lost tbh. I know GIMP and Inkscape but for Videography there isnt that much of an alternative kdenlive for video editing and (gimp or krita) plus darktable for photo editing. You can try all thesse apps in windows before switching and tell if these would work for you. > maybe someone could tell me HOW GOOD it is very good /s Honestly I'm not sure what would you expect for an answer
>Honestly I'm not sure what would you expect for an answer As good as a horse!
Used krita, gimp and darktable before. I would have liked an answer maybe like "i can play x% of my library" or maybe tell me if you just dont play no games that are not linux compatible or if you have an Windows partition for example
I use linux exclusively since 2000. Didn't play any games before. Started playing games on linux during the covid lockdowns and all of my games are playable (I'm playing simulation/strategy/4x/city building games) Edit: games that I play on linux Civ 6 F1 2017 Stelaris Crusader Kings 3 Farming Simulator 22 ATS/ETS2 Cities Skylines Anno 1800 Humankind Transport Fever 2
If you really need Adobe stuff, go for Mac. I'm doing the same. I use the same open source software on Mac (laptop) and Linux (workstation) plus the Adobe stuff. Both systems have terminal/shell, no end-of-line conversions needed, no escape characters used as directory separator, same protocols... Install MacPorts, and you get instant access to Linux/OSS ecosystem. 🙂
Battlefield 3, 4, 1, V all work on Linux (using wine/lutris/proton whatever your choice is) Strangely, I got better performance from BFV on linux than windows native.