I just today saw someone hyping up this program and they could not be more divorced from reality than a spirit doctor on shrooms.

I've tried so many times to get DaVinci to run, and there's always a problem.

FIRST, you should know some basic bash. Great. Learning a programming language. That definitely doesn't already exceed the maximum threshold of an "easy" installation.

Okay, so let's assume you got somebody like me who actually has some experience with programming and is willing to learn. I'll even buy a book for it.

SECOND, you need to buy a graphics card because your system defaults aren't enough. Cool. That's also super user-friendly, needing to physically open up my system and install entirely new hardware at cost? Definitely still "easy", especially for someone who's never done that.

Okay, let's also assume you got somebody similar to me who's willing to spend a bit more money because they really want to make Linux their new OS and they buy a new graphics card.

THIRD, you need to install graphics drivers. But you can't have Secure Boot on. But Secure Boot will re-enable itself the second you install anything anyway. Installing recommended Nvidia Driver from Driver Manager? Crash. Oh, and "Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock". Kill process? No, fuck you. We're going to force you to use sudo for damn near every goddamn thing despite every website simultaneously warning against liberal use of sudo.

Okay, well I don't know how I did it, but after countless reinstalls and reconversions I made a .deb file. I run it and it produces a blank white window. Oh, what's that? There's more advice further down the page that says I should know to avoid this by adding an additional argument to my conversion command? Sick. Exactly what I wanted, to go through the "this might take a while" step AGAIN.

Welp at this point I've decided to try and streamline this process by putting all the files on a USB drive, reinstalling Linux (because I want to figure out how to do a clean install in case I ever have to do this again), but now when I try to convert the .sh file with the .run file it says "Permission denied".

Okay. Sudo.

"CAN'T USE SUDO FOR THIS."

Have I lost permissions after migrating this to a USB device? I try chmod in multiple ways. On the USB. On the desktop. And every time I have to replace my files because botched attempts produce incomplete files. NOTHING WORKS. Permission denied. WHY? I managed to do this once already, but I've been doing this so long I've forgotten what I ever did differently to make it work the first time!

I'm just staring at a terminal window of me repeatedly trying to chmod permissions back onto these files (assuming these are the files I'm missing permissions for!) and it's just roadblock after roadblock after roadblock.

It was EASIER to pirate Adobe Premiere Pro Creative Cloud in Chinese on MAC than it is to run this goddamn video editor on Linux Mint. The people who hype up Linux as though it's as accessible or even "easy" have either never installed an app on Linux outside of the Software Manager, or they've installed so many that their perspective is permanently fucked.

I REALLY want to adopt this system as my daily driver, I would not have bought a book on bash, bought an office laptop, a new desktop, monitor, keyboard, graphics card, all this shit!- if I didn't want to get away from Apple and Microsoft. But FUCK ME, people must just get stars in their eyes looking at r/unixporn cause when I try installing a windows manager that can leech the colors from my wallpaper, I BRICK MY WHOLE GODDAMN SYSTEM. You didn't know you shouldn't mess with lightdm? Get fucked loser. This is Dark Souls, being punishing, inhospitable, and full of beginner's traps is what we call """"f u n"""".

And yes, I have tried other distros, other desktop environments, I know DaVinci prefers CentOS, I know Lightworks is a thing, I've done my fuckin' homework, but how many goddamn classes do I need on this subject to accomplish something described as "EASY"!?