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I currently have a Windows 10 Pro machine that I would like to move over to Ubuntu in the near future. I have been researching how the various pieces of software I use as part of my workflow would run on Linux, and most of them would run either on Wine or in a Windows 10 VM, and the one program that won't I can find a Linux equivalent for.

However, my question has more to do with hardware instead of software. I use an Elgato HD60 Pro capture card to ingest video from various devices. In Windows, the capture card shows up as a video input device, similar to a webcam. Would it work the same way? Is there anything similar for Linux? Or do I have to replace the capture card when I switch to Linux? Thanks!

I'm wanting to do a minimal install of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on a VM I'm making. My original thought was to use either the network installer or the minimal CD, but both of those seem to be gone right now. How would I be able to get that kind of install on 20.04 LTS?

I am unsure whether this question belongs here, on Super User, or on Server Fault, so if it is in the wrong place I apologize.

I have two systems involved here: an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS system and a Windows 10 Pro system. What I am trying to do is share a virtual machine from the Ubuntu system to the Windows system, so that it is run over the network and the Ubuntu system, which has a much more powerful CPU, can handle the heavy lifting. I set up VMWare Workstation Server, and put the VM in question in the shared VMs folder. However, when I try to connect to the server, I get errors on both systems.

The Windows machine gets an error saying "Failed to connect to linux-system. A connection to the server could not be established." The Ubuntu machine gets an error saying "The connection to the VMWare Workstation Server was unexpectedly lost." Restarting the service allows me to get to the VM on the Ubuntu system, but I still can't reach it from the Windows system.

I'm obviously doing something wrong, but I have no idea what it is!

I'm running Ubuntu 19.04 Desktop, and I would like to install Vulkan. I already installed the Nvidia drivers from the Software and Updates app, but when I try to install Vulkan from the command line using sudo apt install vulkan vulkan-utils, I get the following:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package vulkan

I checked to make sure I have the PPA, and I do. Looking at the PPA's website, though, it shows Vulkan for 18.04 and 18.10, but not 19.04. How would I go about installing Vulkan on my 19.04 system? Assuming it's even possible, that is.

EDIT: The results of running sudo ubuntu-drivers devices are the following:

== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 ==
modalias : pci:v000010DEd00001B82sv00003842sd00005671bc03sc00i00
vendor   : NVIDIA Corporation
model    : GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070 Ti]
driver   : nvidia-driver-415 - third-party free
driver   : nvidia-driver-418 - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-396 - third-party free
driver   : nvidia-driver-430 - third-party free recommended
driver   : nvidia-driver-390 - distro non-free
driver   : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin

When I tried to run sudo apt-add-repository ppa:canonical-x/vulkan I got this error:

Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:~canonical-x/ubuntu/vulkan'.
The team named '~canonical-x' has no PPA named 'ubuntu/vulkan'
Please choose from the following available PPAs:
 * 'testing':  Testing PPA
 * 'x-staging':  Canonical X Staging

And running lspci -knn | grep -A3 -i -E "(VGA|3D)" gave me the following:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070 Ti] [10de:1b82] (rev a1)
    Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070 Ti] [3842:5671]
    Kernel driver in use: nouveau
    Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation GP104 High Definition Audio Controller [10de:10f0] (rev a1)
    Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. GP104 High Definition Audio Controller [3842:5671]
    Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
    Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
03:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1083/1085 PCIe to PCI Bridge [1b21:1080] (rev 04)
05:00.0 Non-VGA unclassified device [0000]: YUAN High-Tech Development Co., Ltd. Device [12ab:0380]
    Subsystem: Device [1cfa:0003]
07:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 15)
    Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Onboard Ethernet [1458:e000]

If I need to downgrade to 18.04, that is perfectly fine; I just want to know whether such a downgrade is needed before I continue to set up the 19.04 system.