I’m currently running a Win 7 offline setup with the 23.8 version of KDenlive.
I ‘m now going to create a Win 10 iso (minus much of the bloat), to primarily run the latest Kdenlive versions.
The official Win 10 download is 22H2. If I’m running an offline setup, is there really any need to incorporate the latest Win 10 updates into the iso.
Is there any reason KDenlive will not run as well on the standard 22H2 install compared to a fully updated version. I should emphasise this will be totally offline. It’s easy enough to incorporate it, but if it is just unnecessary additional bloat, I would rather not bother.
Unless you have other reasons, maybe it is worth to consider installing Linux instead of Windows 10 since you are going to specifically use it for Kdenlive. Saying this so you won’t end up in a situation of running an older version of Kdenlive eventually as you currently do with Windows 7…
@Sark: I wanted to say the same about installing Linux. Trust me, if you just (primarily) want to do kdenlive stuff, you will have more fun on Linux and you don’t even need to stay offline. I used kdenlive for years on Win10 and switched to Linux myself recently and can tell you, kdenlive runs better on Linux. But the best thing is, you will have nearly life-time updates for your device and kdenlive and so you always can run the latest version. And if you need help with something, you know where this forum is.
By coincidence, even before reading these last three posts I had just downloaded three Linux distros (Mint. Zorin & Linux Lite).
This was primarily due to issues debloating Win 10.
Have just installed Mint. Early days, but I’m suprised how similar it is to Windows. Very impressed by how much worked out of the box. Didn’t even need to install a graphics driver for full res display. Only minor quible I’m having so far is the lack of a simple option to redirect the Home directories for My Pictures, My Videos etc, to the seperate partitions I currently have them stored on. Will no doubt figure out how to use symlinks for this.
TomorrowI will start and download and add some apps (including latest Kdenlive) and see how I get on.
That situation has been reversed for many years now. Stuff that still needs a separate driver and/or utilities for Windows, will Just Work straight out of the box on Linux.
the lack of a simple option to redirect the Home directories
That will be a “desktop environment” specific thing, not a “Linux” thing as such. There are lots of different DE’s you can choose from and they each have their own quirks for stuff like that. On KDE Plasma, see Settings -> Session -> Locations. Others should have something similar. Lots of people also just don’t use them and arrange things in their own way.
Linux has Filesystem Hierarchy Standard - Wikipedia to define where system files should go - but in your own home directory there are no inherent special meanings, you can mostly call things whatever you want and use them however you want.
PS… Will take a look at Fedora.
<cough>Just use Debian</cough>
It’s what all the rest of them are either flavours of or want to be.
But regardless of what distro you end up liking the most, just use the kdenlive AppImage on all of them. The distro shipped packages of it on most of them can be pretty hit and miss - usually with a lot more of the latter than the former.
