Hi everyone!
I wanted to know if anybody can help me with my new workstation.
We are a couple and we are planing to build a new PC for 4k Video editing, audio recording and production, engineering and architectural desing (BIM), and some soft gaming. And our goal is to have only one workstation for both of us.
We use principally Davinci Resolve in ubuntu studio and we try to only use Linux.
So i need advice in 2 things.
First of all, Software:
It's possible to have 2 independent users in linux running at the same time with independent graphics server each one?. Something like have a PC for each one. That should be the same use as run a virtual machine for the second user (like in the video with the hackingtosh VM), but due that we uses the same software, the same distro, and the same files, i think that run without a VM would be better. And like that i think i don't have to concern about to give to one or another "pc" more or less cores or ram or whatever depending in wich of us are doing the more resource hangry task. (because that will be automatically did... or not?). And well, sometimes i need a windows machine that will be a VM but that happens only once each week or less.
And Second of all, Hardware:
What PC i need? I think that a 3900x with 32gb of ram would be good enogh. I haven't selected yet a GPU but in this moment nvidia is less problematic with Linux than AMD.
In the ideal Scenario of having one distro runninng with 2 users, is possible to have 2 GPU? one for each user. What cards would be better under 600 (that doesn't have to be the same because not rarelly we use the pc at 100% of capacity at the same time). or in what i need to think for get one?
Also i have a great doubt with the storage. I have a 500gb nvme and some hard disks. Normally i use the ssd only for all the software and the hard disks for media and all the archives, but for video and audio edition, what is the recomended read speed i need from a drive for be able to work with multiple tracks? I have had crashes with my usbHD that works at 100mb/s. Do i necessarily need a SSD for save the video and audio files?
Thank you very much! If anybody knows a forum for read about this multi-user things i will be happy to see.
