There's a lot in there. What do you think is the target audience? People need to understand what the different desktops and filing systems offer and I wonder how many do. Linux may be growing, but it's still a minority OS. I get that some people like playing around with their systems, but I just like things to work. I don't do much customisation, but we're all different.
Are you using Kdenlive? I have been getting more into that and it can do a lot. Part of why I want a new PC is to make video editing more viable as it can get laggy.
Cheers for the insight.
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Yes Kdenlive is the editor I use. 90% of my videos were done with Kdenlive.
There's a few where I used Flowblade, but Kdenlive is the top for me hands down. Flowblade's stand-out feature is it has a GUI for G'MIC(a graphics library for applying effects to images). And it actually allows you to apply them to videos which is really cool. But that's not even something I actually need.
I see a lot of people who are new to Linux choosing Cachy.
They offer so many desktops I think because by casting that wide net they can appeal to anyone.
Debian & Arch both have basically every desktop/window-manager available, but what's unique about this is you can install any of them with a few clicks.
You don't have to customize anything really. In fact, you're getting the most vanilla version of Gnome, KDE, Cinnamon, Mate what have you. The only custom things they ship are the icon pack, themes(for KDE at least, not sure about the others), and Cachy wallpapers. Plus the couple of Cachy tools/apps that are mostly about kernels, schedulers, daemons.
They do include Fish/ZSH shells, and ZSH has Oh-My-ZSH already installed which is like a customized ZSH environment.
For people who want to game I think Cachy has a lot to offer.
It's definitely tailored towards modern hardware.
But also surprising is the amount of Vulkan graphics-drivers there are available which you are prompted for when you install the gaming packages.
I didn't recognize most of them so I had to look them up, and they're drivers for ARM GPU's, and lots of surprising older/less common chipsets that you don't necessarily find on dekstops/laptops/PC's.
Linux is definitely growing, and I don't think there's ever been a time when more people were interested in using Linux to be honest. For multiple reasons.
Chief among them is Windows 11 & Windows Copilot.
I do all my work on old (4 cores with 8GB RAM) hardware, and finding good video editing software has been a real chore.
So far, Flowblade has been fastest and least glitchy for me. It runs circles around KDEnlive and OpenShot on my old hardware.
I upgraded from 8GB to 24GB last year. The old chips were not too expensive and that helped a bit. I'd not heard of Flowblade. The bottleneck is transcoding. It's possible a GPU could help with that.
Adding a graphic card (also old, cost me $12 on eBay) that allowed GPU to be used by software cut my transcoding time in half, and eliminated my editing lag with larger files.
Having a lot of RAM is a game-changer for video-editing.
I've also used Flowblade, and there was a time when it seemed to outperform Kdenlive when actually editing on the timeline. I haven't used newest versions of it so that could have improved a lot I don't know. But during the pandemic Kdenlive had a great-leap forward with people seeming to dedicate a lot of time to it.
I'm using an old Intel Xeon 6-core/12 threads & a Nvidia Quadro GPU(2GB VRAM) and I have 32GB of DDR3. Old hardware that was decent when it was new.
Years ago I did probably 6 or 7 of my videos with Flowblade, but I would honestly feel held back by it if I had to use it now.
Granted video editing styles are very different for everyone.