First of all, I’d like to apologize for contributing to the constant stream/flow of posts in which the main theme/idea/motive is to find a suitable distro for the OPoster. I wish we’d have a dedicated community that’s active/large to the extent we’d be able to delegate/contain these convos to their designated places, but alas…

With that out of the way, we can get to the actual meat. So, for two weeks, I’ve been reading a ton about different distros. And while I’m still primarily overwhelmed by the amount of choice, I think I’ve finally got somewhat of an idea.

Requirements:

  • Software-wise, the only thing I’m worried about is Davinci Resolve. It should work, but it seems to be hit or miss. The distro I wish to use should handle this gracefully.
  • I’m a huge snob for security and privacy. As I’m kinda worried that desktop Linux’ security isn’t on par with M$ or macOS, I wish to use as secure of a system as possible to (somewhat) compensate for that.

I like to follow ‘authorities’ whenever I’m overwhelmed. As I’ve known them since their PrivacyTools-days, it was easy for me to designate Privacy Guides as such. Hence, I’ve come to appreciate its recommendations. But, I believe the tailor-made consensus by this communities’ experts is at least equally important.

That’s where I’m coming from, let’s head over to the questions:

  • Are PrivacyGuides’ recommendations actually good in the first place?

  • From what I can tell, the subset of security-focused distros are (at least potentially) my end-game. But, from what I could gather, they’re not sensible picks for a newb. Is this correct?

  • As for what remains, I got the following assumptions (please correct me if I’m wrong*):

    • The anonymity-focused distros don’t seem well-suited for general use.
    • Hardening Arch or NixOS to the extent we find within the offerings of Fedora or openSUSE isn’t trivial.
    • Fedora’s Atomic Desktops offer something tangibly superior security-wise over what we find for traditional Fedora and openSUSE at the expense of convenience.

    As such, am I correct to assume that Fedora Atomic Desktops are best for me? Would you happen to know if it plays nicely with Davinci Resolve?

  • Are there any other distros worth mentioning within the context? If so, which ones and why?

  • Any gotchas or otherwise I should be aware of?

Thanks in advance for your input!

  • anon5621@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 day ago

    Firstly tell what ur GPU that u wanna use it for davinci resolve ,secondly tell what ur threat model because comparing directly security of Mac os and windows doesn’t make any sense ,tell what u want exactly to achieve

    • 734Y4ch_7M3_7r0@programming.devOP
      2·
      11 hours ago

      Firstly tell what ur GPU that u wanna use it for davinci resolve

      An Amd GPU from 7 years ago

      secondly tell what ur threat model

      I haven’t properly formalized my threat model yet. But assume that I want protection against any and all untargeted attacks.

      tell what u want exactly to achieve

      A general-use OS that I’d use to replace my Windows 10 installation. There’s a ton of software that I use and for which I have to find replacements (eventually), but Davinci Resolve is probably my biggest worry.

      • anon5621@lemmy.ml
        3·
        7 hours ago

        Is Vega 64? Or rx 580 if that so u will need to ready fight for opencl drivers cause davinci not working without them at all ,u will have to use something like opecl-mesa with rustcl RUSTICL_ENABLE.