The argument for dual boot is mostly for gaming, as far as compute is concerned your AMD graphics card would have been fine on Ubuntu or an RHEL/CentOS operating system. But honestly in my experience, it’s always good to dual boot just in case. There are many scenarios where it saves you headaches and precious time.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

as far as compute is concerned your AMD graphics card would have been fine on Ubuntu

I was on Ubuntu. And it was not fine.

[–] rndm@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah sorry, the Amd card itself works great with Ubuntu in compute tasks. The software DaVinci Resolve however is a red hat binary so you would need to be on Rhel or centOS to work with Linux.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Nope. It was the AMD card (and associated drivers) that was the issue.

You know how I know? Because I'm currently running Davinci Resolve just fine on Ubuntu, with an nvidia card.

I'm telling you, absolutely nothing I tried could get GPU compute to work for AMD. Nothing I ever did could get ROCm working on AMD (and I did a lot of things trying to get it working), but cuda on nvidia worked instantly and automatically as soon as I installed the nvidia drivers.

[–] rndm@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

AMD video drivers are known to conflict with davinci resolve in Ubuntu. Thats why I said, to get it to work Natively on Linux you would need to switch to RHEL or CentOS.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

AMD video drivers are known to conflict with davinci resolve in Ubuntu.

Well, I couldn't get GPU compute on AMD to work with anything else, either. It's not a Davinci Resolve specific issue.

Thats why I said, to get it to work Natively on Linux you would need to switch to RHEL or CentOS.

Or... I could switch to nvidia. Which I did. And it's been working great.