Been using Linux for the last 2 years as my main driver, before that was always on Windows. I switched to Linux for minor coding and privacy concerns with Windows. However, the only software that I wasn’t able to find a good alternative for in Linux is CaptureOne which I use for photo editing.
The work around I’ve been using is running CaptureOne in a Windows VM machine… but it’s janky and a terrible usage of my computers resources. The VM takes a fixed amount of RAM so I often run into issues where the VM crashes, or, linux crashes because they can’t manage RAM resources together. I upgraded to 32GB of Ram to try and solve this, but, it’s been a no-go. The VM also can’t utilize the GPU so, that’s been an annoyance.
Current computer: i5-126000k RTX 3060TI 8GB 32GB RAM Ubuntu
Wanted to see if anyone here uses CaptureOne on a MacMiniM4 16GB RAM and can comment on it’s performance for both editing and batch processing. My big concern is RAM, and if 16GB is enough. Seems like Apple is more efficient with RAM though?
High usage would generally have a browser with up to 10 tabs, maybe a video playing on my second screen, and then CaptureOne Full screen.
Think the M4 16GB would be enough? Budget is tight.
Not an apple user but have you tried Photopea as an alternative to CaptureOne it’s basically a browser version of Photoshop
Had never heard of Photopea - just gave it a quick 5min spin… am amazed something like this exists. I think the only issue with it is it doesn’t fulfill the catalog aspect of C1 that is semi-important… I see you can download the edits as .psd… so maybe I just use a regular file browser as the catalog basically? I will have to ponder this. It’s certainly an interesting option I didn’t realize exists. Thank you.