Solved How to install Wine in Ubuntu 24.04?

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• "I don't have a dedicated GPU" - Mm-hm. Again, many of them are also written nowadays to 'offload' rendering & other related processor-intensive stuff TO your dedicated GPU (if you have one). Simple reason is that a GPU is far better suited to what's termed "massively parallel processing" than a CPU is; it's all to do with the architectures used by the two different types of hardware. GPUs are designed specifically for parallel processing of large numbers of threads simultaneously (this is ideal for video-rendering); CPUs, on the other, are optimized to be "general workhorses".....able to handle all sorts of stuff.

Wow! I had no idea, thank you very much for the explanation! So I'll have to buy a dedicated GPU after all, sooner or later. I was hoping to avoid this, because they're so expensive. But if I'll have to do it, that's it.
I did notice in Handbrake the AMD VCE option in the Video Encoder section. I even used it, and it's incredibly fast, but the quality is not so good, so I abandoned it. Nonetheless, it was useful in a situation where I had to rip a an ISO file containing a DVD Video that had some faulty chapters. The encoding was always stopping at chapter nr. 2, the first one to be defective. So I used AMD VCE to quickly rip every chapter individually and used the render results to identify the faulty ones. Then I repeated the rip, this time using the regular video encoder and ripping the good chapters all together in 1 file, and the defective ones individually, in separate files. Finally, I used AvideMux in copy mode to reassemble all in one unique video file. So yes, there are situations where the speed of AMD VCE can be useful.

• "Both my CPU and GPU are AMD brand" - This is where we differ. Ever since Ryzen - and subsequent variants thereof - hit the scene, the differences between Intel and AMD have become so miniscule as to be irrelevant (and Intel know it!)

I was referring to the past compatibility issues between Natron and AMD components I read about in internet, sorry for not being more specific.

I use 2 video editors. Openshot for day-to-day stuff ('cos I'm very used to it).....and for bigger projects, when I want to make a really good job of something, I use Lightworks. The latter CAN run up to between 18-24 GB when rendering a big project; it's a good job I maxed this HP out to the full 32GB during the first year of COVID! Puppy itself doesn't even need a gig to be fully-functional...so that leaves me plenty of overhead. Why d'you think I use such a small, lightweight OS? 'Cos she leaves almost all of my RAM for what I want to do..!

Good for you, I also think I would make good use of an OS that consumes less resources.
For my video editing activities I mainly use Kdenlive, and so far it has been enough for me. The most complex things I did with it are:

• Blending videos containing graphic effects (like light leaks or bokeh lights, both taken from pixabay) to the main video, to obtain results like this:

• Use the "Crop, Scale and Tilt" effect to display multiple videos at the same time on screen and move them around.
• Improve VHSRip videos ripped from DVD videos: deinterlace, denoise, normalize audio, enhance the stereo effect and modify contrast/brightness if needed.

But I would like to start using Natron to apply some of those GMIC filters. And also learn some Color Correction. And Motion Graphics. In time, I will

Yeah; if you're serious about your multimedia stuff, you ARE going to need at least 16GB. If your PC will support 32GB - or even 64GB - and you can afford to do so, I would "go for it".

It'll make a world of difference, it really will. Especially for this kinda stuff......I speak from experience.

Thank you, noted down. I'm aiming for 64GB, the max supported by my motherboard. I just hope my 6TB HDD won't die first, it's acting up lately. I would be forced to invest in SSDs as a priority (which I already decided to do, but 1 year from now, or even more).

Thank you very much for all the tips and explanations, they really help me improve professionally, thanks!