Gnome was already pretty great for accessibility (for a Linux DE anyway), and I’m glad to see that it’s getting continued work.
Usually (understandably) it’s overlooked
Also nice to hear them actually explaining why VRR hasn’t been enabled yet - there are still kinks to work out. Reddit/Lemmy told me it’s just because Gnome devs are evil pieces of shit who hate their users.
I have a tablet running fedora with gnome. While it works for me I cannot recommend it at all for something I’d give to someone else.
On the surface gnome looks useable as a mobile DE, but the reality is that it requires several gnome extensions to get it in a useable state (I’m talking having a reliable way to copy and paste). Those extensions are not necessarily updated at the same cadence as gnome or fedora so my ability to consistently use the device in a predictable manner is gone if I install the latest updates when available (and after years of training users to install updates when available someone you give the tablet too will click the update pop-up).
Regarding drivers, the only thing that doesn’t work on mine is the camera. I’d recommend trying out a few choices on a live boot and seeing just how much effort you have to make it useable.
Just a note: there are a few on-screen software keyboards for X out there that aren’t tied to a specific DE, like xvkbd and svkbd. They might be worth trying if you find some distro that works well except that the default on-screen keyboard sucks. (No idea if there’s any equivalent for Wayland.)
Gaming is not important if you do video editing. Hardware doesnt need to be very powerful if you dont do 4K or something, which tbh is not needed.
I would say look for a Clevo NV41 laptop as they are supported with Coreboot by 3mdeb, Novacustom, System76, Nitrokey etc. But flashing coreboot requires some knowledge and a hardware programmer.
I cant recommend other brands really. Thinkpads are just a name, good Linux support but their support is nonexistent if you dont pay, and the software updates are not long.
You may want AMD graphics, but I have had bad experience with amd mobile CPUs.
You will want to use
tlp
system76-scheduler (or this power management thing)
autocpufreq
Either one of these.
As a Distro I highly recommend ublue.it they are supporting many models with custom setups like Razer etc, but also main (intel, amd, no extras) or nvidia (proprietary drivers).
Especially if you go with an NVIDIA card, which has advantages, I recommend the system76 tool for switching between internal GPU and dedicated one. And I also recommend only ublue’s *-nvidia images, as you can rollback if an update with the drivers breaks something.
I’ve been really interested in this project for a while now and even more excited when they announced 2.0. I can’t wait to try out the beta once it’s released
I also had weird problems connecting to wireless before, turns out the wireless on my machine could only connect to 2.4 ghz wireless but the routers I couldn’t connect to were 5 ghz. Just something else to check. Quite possibly due to the card being too old.
I recently installed R on my Arch desktop to play with. Any Linux distro could work well if you install the right things, the distro mostly influences how they get installed afaik.
Bottles and docker could be helpful depending on software supports and your needs.
Correct. I was disappointed to find this out as well. Supposedly it’s due to these codecs requiring a paid license to use. With windows the license cost is baked into the cost of the windows license itself, but of course that doesn’t exist with Linux. It CAN work on Linux if you purchase the studio version of Resolve, but I wasn’t ready to shell out $300 for a video editor when I’m only producing content for Youtube as a hobby and for the fun of it.
I have OnePlus 6T with Droidian and must say it is this close to daily drive for me.
Everything works and there are apps for almost everything I need. As someone who uses only FOSS social media and things, there is Mastodon and Matrix client, I just lack maps with navigation (can use Organic Maps via Waydroid). Beyond that what is left is polish and tiny things, like for the performance or support for controlling media via buttons on bluetooth speaker.
I also tried PostmarketOS, that is adapting real Linux to phones (when Droidian is taking Linux kernel and drivers from Android and building on that). It is great if someone can get around lack of camera support etc., but for me now it can act like a second device or RPi alternative.
The ability to… you know, just use normal SSH and all the commands, Flatpak apps, all Pipewire tools, not fiddling with Android Studio and it’s stupid SDK or customizing my UI with just CSS is magical.
Seriously, fuck Google and Qualcomm for creating such hostile drivers ecosystem. There are brands like Fairphone that I think would happly support Linux but can’t because of Qualcomm only releasing their own vendor kernel prepared only for Android.
Been keeping an eye on postmarketOS, have been wanting to use it with a more modern phone in the USA, like a Pixel 4a or something. How has droidian been? Haven’t really heard too much about that project, its a full Linux distro? You can apt-get stuff?
It might be quite hard to give full tutorials - I suppose it depends a little on what you’re trying to do - and are your titles intro sequences or other onscreen graphics etc?
The titler within Kdenlive is perfectly functional for static text/shape work, but you may find it easier to produce things externally - I certainly found myself producing the majority of titles in Inkscape - both onscreen graphics and intro pages etc. Basic stuff, i just put the full page in, faded in and out as appropriate. Kdenlive will take SVG and PNG, so you’ve got transparency for different layers of title component.
For bits with moving/sliding/fading components (like in an interview, a coloured bar slides onto the screen in the bottom left, then the person’s name fades in, then their position/workplace fades in, then it all fades out together) - I’d do those with individual components in Inkscape, imported as separate svg files and layered up in Kdenlive, then individually positioned, cut and faded in/out as separate clips (My timelines are normally 8-10 tracks high).
More complex motion graphic work I used to render out in Blender, but I think these days I’d probably use Natron for some of it.
Also, copy and paste as much as possible - work with reusable templates where you can.
If you’ve got a better idea of what sort of thing you’re aiming for (maybe an example of what you want to (re)create?) - I might be able to offer a few pointers at least :)
Yeah, the Kdenlive titler is perfectly workable, and I’ve already created a template or two for quick re-usability. I was being a bit nit-picky ecause everything else has honestly been great. I guess I’m just more used to Resolve where you can have premade title templates that have their own animations already built-in and dynamically adjust to the size of the content. This makes adding titles a snap as opposed to Kdenlive where I have to add my template, then add the content, then manually resize the elements to fit the content then add to the timeline and finally apply animations. What takes maybe 30 seconds in Resolve can be a 3-5 min job in Kdenlive. This could probably be cut-down a lot as I become more efficient though. My title needs aren’t really that complicated.
I would say one of the few downsides Kdenlive has is the lack of the premade templates. I feel like there’s gotta be a site out there for those premade templates that us hobbyists can download and use, but hopefully they’ll just bake that in directly in the future.
The other issue I have is the effects plugins aren’t always up-to-date, so not all plugins work with the latest version.
Not the easiest thing to find, but there is a site for templates and stuff here: kdenlive templates.
There’s not loads on it, and quality may vary. Note that quite a few of these are more like snippets of a project to copy and paste in, so might take a bit of fiddling to get running, compared to just picking “swooshy title #3” and putting your own text in it - but in some form it exists at least :)
I’ve been using Glaxnimate which integrates with Kdenlive. It’s a tool for animating SVG elements. It’s a bit clunky I find but it’s nice in that you can have shapes and text follow animation path with different time curves. It can be used directly from Kdenlive which is pretty cool.
As for other tips, one I use a lot is Timeline Preview Rendering. If you have a whole pile of effects, playing in the project monitor can become very choppy. With the prerendering, you can just render that section and it will play smooth while still allowing you do edit the audio.
Finally, for getting the footage from clips, I use I and O to set the start and end of a part of the clip I want and then with Ctrl+I I can create a zone that shows up in the Project bin. I use that a lot to get the fragments I want first and then build the fill timeline later.
I saw the option for adding a new animation in the project bin, and installed Glaxnimate with the intention of giving it a shot, but the software manager in Mint only has the Flatpak version available which obviously won’t work. As for timeline preview rendering, it’s awesome! I use it to pre-render all of my titles and transitions before I record my voice over so the project monitor doesn’t stutter and throw off the timing on the audio recording. Works a treat! Speaking of voice over, I REALLY wish there was an option for a sidechain compressor input. As it stands now I record my VO, then render out each of the audio channels and then import into Audacity to apply the audio ducking and other effects before importing it all back into Kdenlive. It’s a bit of a headache but it does work.
Then in Kdenlive, go to Settings -> Configure Kdenlive -> Environment -> Standard Applications, change the one for editing animation to point to that script. Should work now. At least, it did for me!
EDIT: Hmm, didn’t seem to work for me. I created the script and made it executable then put the path to the script in Kdenlive’s settings. I can right-click in the project bin and click “create animation” which gives me a .JSON file but I see no way to edit it. Double-clicking it just shows me its properties and right-clicking and selecting “edit clip” does nothing. Interestingly if I execute the script from terminal it starts Glaxnimate as expected. I also went ahead and created a similar script for Pinta as my image editor since I’m also running the Flatpak version of that and had the same result as Glaxnimate when trying to edit images. I also entered the path for Audacity as my audio editor, but it’s installed as a system package so I pointed Kdenlive directly to the binary and got the same result when trying to edit audio files. Maybe I’m just not understanding this, or I have something setup wrong in Kdenlive… Any ideas?
Hmm, no sorry. All I can think of is that maybe Kdenlive itself is a flatpak version in which case it wouldn’t be allowed to run external programs like Glaxnimate (or Pinta). I guess in that case it requires some magic with Flatpak overrides.
Yeah, tricky! You might be able to do something similar to getting native messaging extensions to work on Flatpakked Firefox as described here: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621763#c5
I get what you mean - it’s quite “roll your own” rather than “pre-made” - and the same for quite a few of the effects and motion settings.
Note that you can save template versions of effects or motion settings if you need, so after you’ve used it a while, you might have a reasonable library of things you need - but you’re right, there’s a bit of a lack of “drop in, ready to go”, particularly for quick titles.
Something like a “jiggly funky colourful text shaking about” effect can be a day’s work, rather than a 2 minute “write your own text with this pre-made sequence”.
Just in case they’re useful, there are a set of downloadable templates Kdenlive downloadable titles here, but I’m not sure it’s quite going to cover what you’re after - but worth a browse in case.
Automatic updates, they install Software as Flatpaks, GNOME is good for Tablets.
As the RAM is very low, maybe regular Fedora Workstation though. Or you layer all the Packages as RPMs, which is also totally possible.
Depends entirely on how many things these tablets should do.
webbrowser: Brave or Firefox
drm video: available in both
social media: easy as webapps with chromium/brave
youtube: freetube
signal, other messengers: flatpak best
In general Flatpak apps are often working better, on Ubuntu and Fedora base for me. Arch may be something different, but no way unless its controlled like on steamOS. Immutable Arch with tested updates would be great.
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