I’m thinking about replacing my main PC for a steam deck.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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    26 days ago

    Video editing requires heavy amounts of cpu, ram, and is detailed enough where you would want a large monitor with keyboard and mouse most times.

    Deck is great for a lot of things, I would say this is not one of them. Can you do it? Sure, you can cook an egg on the back of it while you render for 36 hours. Should you? Probably not.

    • SVcrossDO@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      26 days ago

      oof, I’d connect it to a display, would that improve it? Or is it something else entirely?

      • hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
        5·
        26 days ago

        The problem isn’t (just) the display, it’s the… well, everything else

        Edit: not to say that you couldn’t or shouldn’t try it out. Shit, might work out depending on what you want to do

  • Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de
    6·
    26 days ago

    Looking at your old PC specs it should be fine, but keep in mind that davinci resolve is the only big video editor that supports Linux (there’s also kdenlive, but it’s not as popular)

  • BioMyth@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    26 days ago

    Honestly it largely depends on your main PC specs, but like you are hearing from others. It probably isn’t a good idea.

    • SVcrossDO@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      7·
      26 days ago

      My main PC is an i3 from 14 years ago. It has an SSD and 6 gb of ram so it is serviceable.

      • Robin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        26 days ago

        Yeah the steam deck will be faster than that. 4K video editing? Not gonna be great but it might be tolerable. 1080p? Heck yeah.

        • SVcrossDO@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          7·
          26 days ago

          I just use tech for as long as it works. I only replace it when something fails and there’s no way to fix it.

          I think happiness is not about getting more and more, it’s about appreciating what you already have. Getting more and more didn’t make me happy, doing stuff with it did. And if someone else made art with less than half of my current resources, it is my technique that should be improved, not my infrastructure.

          This Ted talk changed my life: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_steindl_rast_want_to_be_happy_be_grateful

          I found happiness in appreciating everything, doing stuff and being with the people that I love.

      • BioMyth@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        26 days ago

        Based on this added info I think it would be a major improvement. So I’d say go for it!

  • Zelaf@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    13 days ago

    I’ve actually done a tad bit of video editing on my Deck through Kdenlive and in short, it works.

    I think a general issue is that Kdenlive tends to crash in of itself a bit. The biggest limitor is probably the lack of GPU based hardware exporting available for the Decks APU in Kdenlive. As well as the 16GB of RAM.

    What I specifically did was load in a video file about an hours length, cut it down and overlay some recorded audio to it, sync it up and export. It was sluggish, froze every now and then and crashed a couple of times. RAM and CPU usage was continuously at high. If I remember correctly, the video was in 4K recorded on an iPhone in HDR. At least the source video was, I can’t recall if I scaled it down to 1080p or not.

    I do want to mention that I’m not running SteamOS on my Deck however. I believe at the time I was running Bazzite and now I’m running Nobara. I haven’t tried doing this on SteamOS but I would imagine the experience would be more or less the same.

    Will it work? Yes, kinda. Will it be as good as an experience as running it on a full fledged desktop with more RAM, higher end CPU and a somewhat modern dedicated GPU? No, it won’t. It’ll work in a pinch or if you have time and patience.

    • SVcrossDO@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      13 days ago

      Thank you for your answer! This does help me a lot to make a decision. Thank you very much!

      • Zelaf@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        13 days ago

        I’m glad my tinkering could be of use to you!

        I run my Deck as my primary computer and have been for about a year or so now. About 10 months without any Windows computer or alternative computer around. It’s been shugging and tugging away at all my projects where I do audio editing, gaming, voice chat, using my Sony camera as a webcam, editing sheet music through MuseScore, intensive web development and managing my servers.

        There’s a lot that can be done with the Deck and I’m sure I’m in the 1% if not less of people using it as intensively as I am. I’ve made sure my Deck has a lock screen and has full disk encryption through LUKS as well which both is important to me since I work a lot on it when I’m away from home.

        If you have any more thoughts regarding using the Deck as more of a PC I’ll happily share some tips and answer any questions!