Itâs underrated, but it has so much untouched potential to make it really shine and it is unfortunately still a bit unintuitive to use.
I wonder if it will ever get some love again by the devs, because itâs clear that the focus is 99% on the 3D aspect of things right now and it will most likely be so for a long time to come, for good reasons of course, the advancements there have been astounding and really needed because theyâre THE libre 3D animation software, while there are already other established libre video editors out there, so there is less necessity. But I still believe that if Blender was to ever give a refresh to the VSE, it would immediately outclass all the other options
Youâve probably got your answer already, but just wanting to confirm that Kdenlive can do all the things you listed.
Though the editor itself is very easy to use and obvious (if you previously have used premiere etc), you might find the UI for some of the individual effects a bit confusing. Thereâs tool tips and sometimes help videos and stuff, but you might find yourself dragging a few sliders left and right to find out what they actually do :)
Note that generally speaking, Kdenlive doesnât currently support graphics-card-accelerated timeline preview very well, so if youâre packing on the effects, you might not get real-time playback in the timeline without âpreview renderingâ. If you ever used Premiere 20 years ago, it works the same as that.
From memory, Olive has the best âin-timelineâ graphics card acceleration - but is otherwise at a much earlier stage of development.
As others have mentioned, some or all of these are also doable in Shotcut, Openshot, Olive.
Also, you might be interested in TJFree Tutorials on YouTube, which has a playlist of Kdenlive tutorials - for older versions, but itâs mostly going to be the same. He also has tutorials in loads of other FOSS creative software. I found he tended to be âclear and efficientâ and doesnât take 5 minutes to give you 1 minuteâs information.
Thank you, Iâll keep that in mind if I need to do more.
Currently, I just have a 5 minute clip that needs cutting, stabilizing and some color correction, and Shotcut let me do that without tutorials or manuals.
Brilliant - Iâll have to have a look at Shotcut again. It used to be quite âcrashyâ, but itâs been in solid continual development for a few years now.
At the end of the day, the distribution is not that important for gaming, unless you need those 1-2 extra fps. Debian is a very good choice for workstations nowadays. I was a long time OpenSUSE user, always had joys with Debian, but yesterday switched to Garuda Linux (Arch variant optimized for gaming) and I love it so far very much.
That said, Torvalds continued, âRust has not really shown itself as the next great big thing. But I think during next year, weâll actually be starting to integrate drivers and some even major subsystems that are starting to use it actively. So itâs one of those things that is going to take years before itâs a big part of the kernel. But itâs certainly shaping up to be one of those.â
I donât know about that, languages which are based on standards (c++ , javascript, c) seem to have much better enduring popularity, i donât want to see rust becoming less and less popular which will lead to less available developers (like what is happening with ruby).
The linux kernel doesnât have enough contributors because itâs really difficult + the entire organisational side of it works on antique tech (IRC and mailinglists). The majority of the project itself is also in C which has a horrible developer experience: linting, documentation, debugging, code completion, and the lack of a proper IDE. The entire development cycle is convoluted. How do you seriously want to attract people to the project if everything looks like itâs still in a development cycle of the 90s?
If I were to discover a one-line bug in the kernel by reading it, actually testing the one-line fix would take me, as a newbie probably a solid week. Getting it into the kernel itself would probably take even longer.
The kernel is also known for Linusâ outbursts and being filled with neckbeard elitists. The project in my eyes has an image problem.
As for rust, if thatâs what you meant, Iâd be interested in knowing the source for not having enough contributors.
I assumed that he was talking about the fact the the languages he listed have a lot of syntax in common with each other, and with a few other languages. I could be wrong though
Speaking as a non Rustacean, Iâm pretty okay with it becoming more integrated.
Itâs safe, performant, and isnât any more difficult to pick up than C++. C has a weird aura about it that makes it seem intimidating despite the fact that it is the simplest language (macros notwithstanding) that Iâve ever used.
Based on Googleâs recent track record of mind-boggling incompetence on all fronts, I want Go kept as far away from core functionality as humanly possible. This leaves either adding more cruft to an already ungainly C++, continuing to use Boost (another Google product) with C, or to pivot to a more modern language.
Agreed re: Google.
I dunno what the solution is. The world without Google is going to be a very different place. Do you think itâs even possible for them to turn things around?
I think it would take a pretty major sea change for them. They technically split up into Alphabet, but I donât know of a single person that actually uses that when describing them.
Even if they did change things around, and I would wager that the entrenched bureaucracy will make that impossible, their name is toxic to a lot of tech nerds. We may be a minority, but we talk and people listen. Even the non techies in my life know that they canât maintain a simple messaging app, responded to (rightful!) concerns about data loss by locking the support threads, and has jacked up the price of YouTube on a yearly basis.
Theyâve spectacularly failed at video game consoles, social media, banking/credit cards, IOT, messaging, video, and canât even maintain a semblance of consistency in their office suite. At work I have three different ways to receive instant messages, and itâs a crapshoot as to which one a coworker will use.
And letâs not even get into how absolutely useless their search is now that everything has been gamed by SEO. Duckduckgo has been my default for years, but now itâs consistently returning better results than big G.
If they managed to correct course tomorrow, it would take multiple years for me to even begin to trust them again.
Really looking forward to this release! Good stuff, another (minor) possible improvement for wine would be native pipewire support. But this is definitely more interesting
I was daily driving arch for 5 years and decided to switch two months ago just like you now and running Debian 12 happily, tried fedora, set subvolumes to timeshift btrfs to work because it was not installed out of the box, and after update from 38 to 39 with official gui update tool, it broke and locked away ssd so i had to recover data, after that i installed Debian 12 and had no problems at all, machine ALWAYS ready to work and stable as fuck, heavenly experience so far actually
While I did not figure out a solution yet, but I found out some additional information and came to the conclusion that nixos must have built something weirdly. Thus I posted on the nixos forum and will likely only update there: discourse.nixos.org/t/âŠ/36643
Thanks. I tried both, and Shotcut was the one where I actually understood how to import, edit and export a video without consulting the manual, so Iâm going with that.
Started dual booting Pop a few weeks ago, kept Windows for gaming for the same concern, but if youâve got the major of your games in stream, Proton really is amazing. Had 0 issues with any game so far.
Check out Protondb and see if your current games are supported or not.
Once Iâm 100% comfortable with Linux again Iâll probably bin of windows forever.
I already had a Windows install so letting Windows manage the bootloader seemed easier as I know it can cause issues if it thinks itâs not the OS as others have said.
All my games are off steam currently lol. I'm hearing the collective message of how feasible Linux is for gaming, tho
Keeping windows is also an "in case" measure because I'm ignorant with both OS, at this point: in case some use case comes up where having Windows is easiest to get something done. My goal is to keep to Linux as much as possible. Purely because I want to become familiar with it
Keep a minimum of 30GB free, for Windows update processes on the windows system partition. I donât how much the windows installation counts in space, but add that to the 30gb free space. I would recommend to have a extra partition for the games on NTFS and move your steam, epic, ubisoft, whatever library to that partition.
I have tried to use the same gaming partition between Linux and Windows, but failed every time. In the worst case this can alter your Windows privileges. At least I had this issue.
Currently Iâm using Windows only for 2 games: Space Engineers and Empyrion. The rest works with better performance on Linux. Satisfactory, Ark survival, Elder Scrolls Online have more FPS on Linux with the same settings. I have to use a nvidia 1050 Ti in my laptop. With a AMD GPU the situation is a lot better on Linux.
Iâm not a hardcore gamer, mostly im coding here and there. But sometimes gaming is a must have.
I was going to put games on an external hard drive, at least for Windows side. Maybe I should also partition the external HD and have an ext4 formatted partition for when I decide to game on the Linux side?
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