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Yo linux team, i would love some advice.

I’m pretty mad at windows, 11 keeps getting worse and worse and I pretty done with Bill’s fetishes about bing and ai. Who knows where’s cortana right now…

Anyway, I heard about this new company called Linux and I’m open to try new stuff. I’m a simple guy and just need some basic stuff:

  • graphic stuff: affinity, canva, corel, gimp etc.. (no adobe anymore, please don’t ask.)
  • 3d modelling and render: blender, rhino, cinema, keyshot
  • video editing: davinci
  • some little coding in Dart/flutter (i use VS code, I don’t know if this is good or bad)
  • a working file explorer (can’t believe i have to say this)
  • NO FUCKIN ADS
  • NO MF STUPID ASS DISGUSTING ADVERTISING

The tricky part is the laptop, a zenbook duo pro (i9-10/rtx2060), with double touch screens.

I tried ubuntu several years ago but since it wasn’t ready for my use i never went into different distros and their differences. Now unfortunately, ready or not, I need to switch.

Edit: the linux-company thing is just for triggering people, sorry I didn’t know it was this effective.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

as for video editing, i've been using flowblade recently, it's been pretty good for putting together more basic edits.

You should install it using flatpak and only update when you have no more active projects (for the moment it seems updates partially break older saves)

pcmanfm has been pretty solid, i really recommend learning CLI file management though, it's universal and super convenient for the basic things.

[–] semperverus 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What do you think of flowblade vs something like kdenlive?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

personally i haven't done much with kdenlive, i've only ever used flowblade in significant capacity. But i've found flowblade to be a lot more consistently laid out, and considerably easier to pick up than flowblade. Though i haven't had any significant technical limitations in editing abilities. One thing about it that's a little weird is that everything is very modular, it has a titling tool, but it saves it to a png, which is automatically added to the media bin, so you can just drag it to the timeline, which is nice from the sense that it easily lets you migrate them between projects, or even edit them externally to add some more shit.

It does the same thing with video clips if you reverse them using the integrated tool, though last i tried using it i recall it being broken, though i only used that on my wizards with guns video so i haven't tried since then, and it worked for that video though.

here's my youtube channel where i've used primarily flowblade for the past year or so. It should be fairly obvious which ones are edited

I'm sure you could do the same thing in kdenlive, and it probably has a couple different and maybe a few more features than flowblade, but like i said, i haven't found a significant reason to dislike flowblade other than the project save bug, which is pretty easy to avoid tbh.

Flowblade also natively integrates GMIC as well, so it allows pretty substantial visual alteration of clips if you fuck with that. You can also use ffmpeg externally for some additional stuff, maybe through gmic, idk never tried.

Overall i'm pretty happy with flowblade, works fine. Doing timelapses with it might be eh, but iirc it does have a tool for that so idk. I haven't tried that yet.