Just to help her: what do you think PopOS is going to give you that Fedora will not?

Did you perhaps receive an unattended upgrade to Frigate?

What else is using resources if you stop Frigate for 15m. Give me a general picture of the system resources and CPU as well. It’s Intel, obviously, but what’s the whole system look like?

So just…turn them off.

If you didn’t know, detection runs all the time for anything of this sort unless you have what we call “predetection filters”.

If you don’t have predetection on video, EVERYTHING gets evaluated. So you pare down what is to be detected by certain, faster events.

Motion detection is probably the most basic because it’s done very quickly in software, and almost certainly by ffmpeg, costing very little in system resources.

If your machine is struggling with however many feeds you have, do this:

1. Reduce the frame rate each camera sends to the minimum acceptable level
2. Set image compression to the minimum acceptable level, and whatever your hardware is fastest at (read: not RAW anything)
3. Set a motion filter to only run model detection AFTER motion detection

That should sort you out.

It’s not for long term anything at all, it’s just running a live distro to poke around.

This is why I asked my second question: what kind of things are you looking to check out or compare? That’s helpful in pointing you in the right direction.

If you’re unfamiliar, there is literally almost zero difference between distros aside from very tiny customizations and the underlying package management system.

You won’t find some distro with massive performance gains for any average task. You also won’t find a distro with some optimization that is special that can’t also be applied to any other distro.

So if you find something you like about one distro, you just put that on whatever you’re running (unless you’re talking about package mgmt). Easy Peasy.

Ventoy or LiveUSB if you just want to poke around. There honestly isn’t much difference between all distros anymore aside from package management, and that is somewhat being a bit pushed aside due to portable package distribution.

What exactly are you hoping to find or test?

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You just need ffmpeg. Literally the industry standard, and you don’t need dress a pig up with slop BS.

Here’s an example: https://github.com/Jpja/FFmpeg-Detect-Copy-Motion

Tons of tutorials out there.

Comes here to rant about something…

Doesn’t even understand what he’s ranting about 🤣

Wanna give some details here, chief? Maybe someone can actually let you know what’s going on or fix it. What DE are you on, first of all?

Nah, dawg. Nah.

Pretty sure it’s just a software selection thing. You can build this very easily on your own now, but I would skip Ubuntu at this time for various.

Fedora is probably the easier to build custom distro images with. Checkout osbuilder, blue-build, or the Fedora docs.

What made this distro distinctive, and for what features?

The KVM is the most likely culprit. Remove it from the equation for awhile and see what happens.

If you’re ever present or have remote access to her network, make sure sshd is enabled, and try to SSH into it to see what happens.

Q’s:

1. Is this a laptop or desktop?
2. If Desktop, what kind of cable is the monitor connected with?
3. See if you can get dmesg output (needs to happen during the event, but the machine is still accessible - hence ssh above)
4. Does the monitor have its own power saving settings?

You don’t. That comment was misinformed. No idea where they heard that from.

We’re all running high performance games through the same thing all the time now. Benchmarks best Windows in most cases.

You’ll be more than fine.

Wine, Bottles, Lutris…etc

Edit: this was a different kind of solution someone else sent me: https://medium.com/@pascalwhoop/how-to-get-lightroom-running-on-linux-with-webassembly-and-nativefier-a69dd9d9f647

I got it working under both Wine and Bottles for someone that needed it, but it was a real pain in the ass, and the reports on actually successfully doing so are hit or miss.

Found this solid write up on various options and results though, which sounds like it could be helpful for you while investigating: https://gist.github.com/eylenburg/38e5da371b7fedc0662198efc66be57b

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I have no idea what this is, and there’s no links. Second.

From the features talked about, I’m guessing a browser.