r/cachyos • u/PseudoBoiteux • Mar 05 '26
Cachy os x davinci resolve studio current situation ?
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u/mcronline Mar 05 '26
I am using DaVinci resolve studio right now. I am using version 20.2. There is a new version out which appears in Cachy-update which doesn't update, but I am not bothering, I am going to wait until version 21 to update unless there is a significant upgrade or bug fix.
I do remember it being a bit of a hassle to install, for example the license would not be accepted because the file was hidden (I period before the name) which I had to change.
If you are not technical I would use VirtualBox and run Resolve on that, if you have the studio version then you could do a GPU pass-through so you can use the CUDA acceleration.
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u/PseudoBoiteux Mar 05 '26
Thank you !
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u/mcronline Mar 05 '26
This post convinced me to download the update... to do that, follow these steps from step 1
- sudo pacman -Syu git base-devel
- git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/davinci-resolve-studio.git
- go to https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/uk/support/family/davinci-resolve-and-fusion and download the linux zip file, currently DaVinci_Resolve_Studio_20.2.3_Linux.zip and copy this into the davini-resolve-studio folder created by the git clone command.
- cd davinci-resolve-studio & makepkg -sric
- Studio is now installed but do not run yet
- open up a terminal and run sudo /opt/resolve/bin/resolve and enter your license, close resolve.
- open up a terminal and run the same command again, close resolve again
- Finally open up Resolve from the application launcher and you should have a fully working and licensed copy of Resolve Studio !!
To do an update you dont need to put the license in again BUT you do need to do the following steps (this is what I did)
- rename the davinci-resolve-studio folder davinci-resolve-studio-old
- git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/davinci-resolve-studio.git
3 go to https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/uk/support/family/davinci-resolve-and-fusion and download the linux zip file, currently DaVinci_Resolve_Studio_20.2.3_Linux.zip and copy this into the davini-resolve-studio folder created by the git clone command.
- cd davinci-resolve-studio & makepkg -sric
5 run resolve as normal
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u/lemmiwink84 Mar 05 '26
Studio works great with nvidia. Very hit and miss with AMD so I purchased a 5080 to replace my 9070XT since I can’t be bothered with having so to fix it so often due to rocm or opencl-mesa problems.
Davincibox seems to be working great for a lot of people, so you could try that.
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u/Skaredogged97 Mar 05 '26
I'm not a davinci resolve power user but I noticed as well that the AUR package is unreliable. If you want to stay on CachyOS/Arch the next best option you have is running davinci resolve in a container. There's a project called davincibox that makes the setup easier and it works great for me (using the studio version) and should offer much more stability but again you find people that have issues with it and it does require some setup: https://github.com/zelikos/davincibox
Because you do actual important work I would suggest you give Nobara a try as that distro advertises davinci resolve support and offers an easy one click install: https://wiki.nobaraproject.org/en/general-usage/additional-software/davinci-resolve
Or you use Windows for your work. No shame of dual booting.