For all it's worth I think there is no way around flatpaks becoming the standard for bassically all software in the future. Repos will not be gone, but restricted to Distromaintainance, Desktop/Window managers and maybe some core Applications.
@@nord2992 I'm thinking that about the nix package manager it can be like a package manager for everything non-core I use nix-shell -p to test alot of software it can be buggy but I feel like if there was more eyes on it it would smoothen out quickly
Try distrobox if something is already packaged for another distro. It doesn't always work because the apps don't expect to run inisde a container but it's worth a shot definitely easier than dual booting especially dealing with windows
Damn right! I fucking hate the stuttering every time i tried to use bluetooth eaphones, which would work perfectly fine on my android phone I had to buy cable earphones instead
I find it better than on Windows for the simple reason i can use more than one usb dongle. When my headphones, mouse, and keyboard are all connected I get crackles on audio in Windows and Linux. But on Linux I was able to pair the headphones using one USB dongle, and the keyboard, mouse, and trackpad to a separate one. Which results in no crackles
I think I installed and removed 3 different bt managers before I got to blueman. I don't use it often but I haven't noticed any issues. I have an i3 mode that switches audio outputs using the alsa name which includes the id of the Bluetooth device to avoid pactl changing sink numbers
If you are open to disabling the audio on the webcam, you can do that by disabling the ALSA device via a custom udev rule or WirePlumber config file. That way, PipeWire can never use the device since it cannot see it.
The audio problem also exists in Windows when you have multiple inputs and outputs. At my company we using a lot Teams and even Skype, and every time is someone hawing problem with microphone or headset which is not working. From about 20 computers in my group which is the same model and same age it was one that took several weeks to fix because it always switched to Line in on the back for audio input.
Exactly. I am about to buy an old Mac mini for audio (music) recording and production. I am just a hobbyist, but there are just too many plugins etc., that only work with windows or mac. Watchagonnado?
I can understand that. Not sure if a full blown OS is actually needing to be different. I suppose Linux installs can be different for that reason. Or having different environments. For software that just runs on top of an OS the reason isn't really the OS but lack of support or alternatives that hit the same spot.
IMHO Olive was the OSS video editor with the greatest potential for being one of the only ones not based off MLT (which Kdenlive is) and having a powerful nodes system, but sadly it hasn't gathered enough attention and the main dev has pretty much given up on it, which is a real shame but understandable. Shotcut is very similar to Kdenlive in features (it's based off MLT too, so it shares the same core), but in my experience it's a bit more stable.
Audio with Bluetooth is definitely need of improvement. I discovered a new bug/frustration that when I'm using me Bluetooth 1More S50 earbuds and pair the DualSense controller. The audio goes from fine to every couple of seconds, it fades in and out of both earbud individually. So the audio gets incredibly inconsistent when I have the Dualsense controller paired.. much sad.
Definitely agree with points 1, 2, 4 and 5. I only somewhat agree with point 3, but I think Dolphin is a pretty good file manager and it does have tabs and works fairly well. Regarding point one, I've not heard from anyone else that really uses virtual desktops the way I do. Since I use KDE and can change any shortcut I've got shortcuts setup to move things to specific desktops and to navigate instantly myself, as well as the ability to tab through them forwards and backwards. I use 12 virtual desktops and I keep things open for weeks, if not months. I've got a media player open on desktop 12 permanently. I've even made sure it's the only program which listens for the media keys. I've done things that way for 25-ish years, as long as I've been using KDE. Also, regarding point 5, I think a good video editor is a key piece of software that we need if we hope to attract more users. Whether anyone necessarily cares for Linux to have more users, I think it could improve things because it could bring more funding for development.
Linux has its flaws yes linux can do better its only as good as the people who manage their packages. Linux is a better alternative than to having your privacy taken away like window's
Kdenlive is the one piece of Linux software that drove me NUTS. I had the same issues where it would work, and then break. At this point it's just freezing for me and I have given up on it totally. Resolve NEVER seems to work either. I switched to OpenShot and have had much better luck. But, for me anyway, my editing needs are pretty simple.
To me, the lack of a real alternative photo/image editing software on Linux is a much bigger issue than video editing. There are at least some viable options for video editing, not so much for images (maybe Photopea, but even it is inadequate for large-scale projects).
You didn't mention Gimp, have you tried that? If not, try it but be aware of a rather steep learning curve if you have not worked with layers before. Ther are a lot of tutorials online, though.
Informative take on Linux. Thank you. Just one remark, instead of buying a Windows Box straight away, you could have tried a different Linux distro with the Video editing SW that you couldn't get to run so far, as it seems (you said as much) it is working ok on Rocky-Linux.
maybe it would be interesting to make a poll to see how many people actually have more than one maximized window shown often enough that they would consider more or less complicated window management to be important. It could be that clicking on the panel to switch between the apps (or pressing super+numbers) is all it takes to do all that 95% of people need and it's a good enough default. Opening a text editor and a web browser side by side sometimes is the only case for this I personally have and it's not worth configuring anything over it, nor am I really interested in random terminal windows I temporarily open being tiled. I still assign all of my apps to workspaces even on plasma but this may just be that I got used to it too much on gnome, I sometimes open overview and I can't stand to have more than a few windows per workspace, and they're grouped semantically, like a workspace for messaging apps for instance. But realistically when I'm usually switching between a messenger and a text editor or browser, I'm not really using workspaces
I have what seems like a trivial audio setup, just digital audio out via some DP/HDMI ports. The names of the monitors is stable and unique (DP-1 etc.), why in tarnation can't pipewire just use those names instead of randoming which output is named what? We may never know, because it usually seems to but the sometimes decides DP-1 should be "Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output 3". Also, all it needs to do it resample and mux audio, then send it out as a digital signal. It fails at that on a daily basis which gets worse with longer uptime, so I end up rebooting up to several times per day because just restarting the user service isn't enough.
You can't fight the universe. Over the years I've learned, that if a thing doesn't have something wrong with it, the thing in question is not a text editor, nor a file manager.
A thing with file managers is there never seem to be an option to show the folders size on the size column rather than the 4KB block size (without checking the properties), which I’m not interested about
Consistency between distros. We, as human beings, are very inconsistent. We can have flame wars over distros, cars, clothes, anything among ourselves. You are partial to file managers. I could care less about them. Regarding which is best or even good is a matter of personal taste and preference. So, consistency becomes a problem. No matter what standard of consistency you pick, there will be a group of users who don't like it. Consistency or standardization requires that there be only one way to do things. Choice goes out the window. Windows is consistent and has standards. Mac is consistent and has standards. I'll bet that more than one of their standards doesn't appeal to you while those same standards appeal to others just fine. Some could care less about ricing their desktop. Others are fantastical about it. Are you willing to sacrifice your ability to rice your desktop in the name of consistency? Are you willing to sacrifice your work flow in the name of standardization? We are not even close to being alike. Consistency and standardization only works for those who say what consistency should look like and how things should work. Otherwise, they become a source of continual frustration and even depression.
My Steam Deck will sometimes do something strange with switching the audio output when plugging it into the TV, especially in desktop mode. It's a lot better than it used to be, but occasionally it will not switch right. It doesn't help that it has some strange outputs that aren't the internal speakers and aren't the TV, and aren't explained.
I replaced a lifetime of windows usage with two machines and it’s working surprisingly well for me, I almost don’t want to jinx it. My creative work has been on a base m2 Mac mini for the same reasons you’re picking up windows again, but using a separate Linux machine as my main file server and daily driver for everything else has been great. It’s very nearly the best of both worlds. Jumping between Mac and Linux is honestly a bit jarring still but I assume it only gets easier with experience.
Try it this way, with nothing running in the background. #1 Open OBS, adjust the Audio using levers in OBS, make your video. Save the file to your PC. #2 Open Davinci, edit your video, without touching the Audio, Render and save your file to your PC. Don't share it, from Davinci to the platforms. #3 Open the file from your PC, watch it, then share to Platform from there. Never ever had any problems doing it this way. 100% success rate.
@@TheLinuxCast thankfully they already started the transition to qt6 but who knows how long it's going to take them... btw, have you checked CliFM? it's a cool ls/cli file manager
I would add internet access to this. I know that the browser sort of deals with this and that's an application not a Linux feature but I think considering how important using the internet is, there should be some sort of OS feature like how, with certain android launchers, you can search the web with the global search. Food for thought
I come from windows where I used Directory Opus as main File manager, and the closest thing to it on Linux is Krusader. I was able to fix all Krusaders problems (image preview, extraction tools, default opening program) by downgrading 3 packages, can’t remember their names now but I’ll edit the comments with them tomorrow. Edit: Downgrade these packages: ark: 24.01.75-1 kio-extras: 23.08.5-1 kservice5: 5.115.0-1
If only Gstreamer would shift focus to media production from media streaming and improve their documentation. That would be the best way to produce video content for any platform.
I've had the odd problem with audio not switching outputs, but most of the time it's not an issue. On the othe hand, my wife's Windows 10 machine has all sorts of strange issues with audio, not switching outputs, entire audio system muting because some app uses MediaPlayer APIs and despite the master volume for the system showing 100%, nothing is hearable because the media player over rides all audio. An example, she turned the volume way down on an ad in Microsoft Casual Games (Spider Solitaire) then even RUclips videos were very quiet despite all volumes being set to 100%, solution, open the windows media player and turn up the volume there. As for consistency, doesn't help that so many devs think that their way to do things is the only way and can't get over that someone else might have a different way that works.
Matt, 2 questions: - out of curiosity, have you tried DavinciResolve while you were on Gentoo ? - isn't Blender also a pretty capable video editor ? I know it's main thing is 3D editing, but I remember people using it just as a video editor. And it is FOSS. And probably more stable than Kdenlive. Probably has pretty limited features though
This is a really good video. Love your take on this. For file management, I would do anything to have a FOSS file manager as robust as Directory Opus (DOpus) on Linux. Oh yes, daddy.... ANYTHING. Jokes aside, Dolphin is really good but I have not found anything that matches DOpus. It's not free software, and recently with the release of DOpus 13 they moved to a subscription model (puke), so I did get it for a year but have really been searching for something else while coming up sort. Like I said, Dolphin is okay, but it's a distant second. I also agree with Linux being subpar on the sound front as well. And while on the topic of sound, it's also worth noting that high quality music players for my digitized collection of music is lacking. I am a whale for stores like eClassical and Hyperion, and spend a lot of time shopping in brick and mortar used record stores, so I value my collection. Music players on Linux are alright, but I have never found anything as powerful as MusicBee. Most Linux players look like something straight out of the 90'a or early 2000's and for some reason many FOSS players on Linux seem to have an aversion with regard to highlighting album art. Quod Libet is alright, though... but, again, a distant second place to the Windows only MusicBee.
Two words: POWER EFFICIENCY. For all its bloat, Windows still kicks Linux's butt in most cases when it comes to battery life. How come? This should be a priority going forward.
Is this a driver thing? Because usually I hear that linux runs faster than windows on laptops, uses less ram, etc, which is why people use it on old dying laptops. But maybe the drivers for some components doesn't let it go into lower power states as easily?
Windows as an OS for laptops has tens of thousands of developer hours behind it. This is not to mention that Windows works directly with hardware manufacturers to enable things like power efficiency. Linux *could* get there, but there is not of enough demand for it on both sides (consumers and manufacturers)
Re: audio with PulseAudio & Pipewire: Some time back I commented on one of the Linux Forums (Manjaro) that I'd noticed a big improvement in audio quality with PulseAudio, particularly deep bass response. Others replied that they too had noticed it. Having recently switched to Pipewire on this one, I'd say the audio is just as good. Just need to configure simultaneous outputs as I had with PA. … This is wired via a decent stereo system/speakers or (what I consider) a good headset via Bluetooth.
I'm bummed that you're moving your editing to windows. I agree that this is a really weak spot, but I'd personally still rather deal with kdenlive's issues than switch to Windows. You might even consider Reaper if you're just editing youtube videos. The video editing capability isn't fancy, but it gets the job done if you're editing the kind of videos you post on your channel. Plus if you use Reaper you can start using some of the really good noise reduction plugins available.
To me Linux is like DIY drag race used car, chromeos, linux mint and zorinos is a budget used car, macos is a Tesla and windows is a Ferrari. Treated well all of them have their usecases. But if you aren't rich you probably don't need to be using windows or macos unless your job gave it to you free IMO;
I always have a hard time connecting my phone to my laptop. It works sometimes but always fails the day I need it to work. It's very frustrating. Bluetooth and audio definitely need to improve. I was able to work on some solutions so I'm okay for now. As for video editors, I agree with you. Kdenlive is OK for small projects. I have to use my Windows laptop for larger projects and when you're working against the clock.
I wonder if the video editors crash less for you on windows. Usually I don't have crash issues on windows, but I hear video editors (especially premiere) do crash a lot. It might be worse than kdenlive
First, Matt should put all his critiques of Linux file managers down into a specification requirements for what he thinks would be the perfect iteration. As someone who uses a sheel for 99% of file management stuff, it's not easy to follow along with what the big deal of the various GUI file managers are. Second, there's a video about getting DaVinci Resolve to work using Distrobox to create a specific Rocky Linux container for the app and run it that way, it's titled "How to (best) install DaVinci Resolve on Linux" by "Robo n' Tux Guides".
Have you considered installing Kdenlive as a flatpak then disabling updates for it? And maybe go all out and disable updates for the runtime that it uses.
Audio on Linux just sucks.... :( Are any of you guys using an equalizer over pipewire? I just want to stream Spotify and make it actually sound good, should not be a major deal, right?!? I've been using JamesDSP for a while but now it just doesn't work anymore on my setup... advice on good alternatives appreciated, thanks !
I agree with most of it. Da Vinci Resolve is the best video editor on Linux, period! You still need an Nvidia card to get it to run properly. On AMD it just doesn't work in a good way. I also bought a used Macbook in order to edit videos in a good way, but then I felt that I needed my good Linux machine for anything else and that I had invested a lot of money in it (Ram, Nvme, CPU) so that I decided to get an Nvidia card and Da Vinci runs perfectly fine on Nobara/Fedora Linux with Nvidia.
Linux needs a mid-tier photo editor. Something like what the old PhotoImpact used to be on Windows. It seems Linux only has basic level and professional level editors. In other words, you can only have a Windows Paint alternative or a Photoshop alternative; nothing in between. What I really loved about PhotoImpact, when it still existed, is that you could do very basic stuff extremely quickly but it had enough advanced and very advanced tools to do more fancy stuff. If there's something like that already on Linux, I haven't come across it yet and believe me, I've done a *lot* of searching.
davinci works ootb on some more niche distros, for example nobara has a davinci fixups script, which probably does everything you usually need to do manually to make it run on fedora - and it is actually the easiest way I have ever experienced to make resolve run on linux, the only thing I wish it also added was a kde plasma workspace rule to force a titlebar on it
File managers need video and image tumbnails, the latter mostly works but video thumbnails I've only gotten to workish few times in file pickers never. In theory video tumbnails should be able to use ffmpeg and mostly work
The problems this guy is having is not directly coming from Resolve, it is coming from all the customizations he makes overall. You pick a distro and keep it close to stock, you don't get many issues.
I think with your complaints about window management and file managers, it would be useful to be more specific. Really specific complaints can be very useful for open source software.
Lack of consistency between Linux distros. I hear you there. The only unification I see for many distros, is the Debian backing to make software installation easier. I know this doesn't unify anything else. You're still going to run into many other differences and/or problems.
OpenShot seems OK for minimal editing. It can work for simple things at least. Not sure what features an actual editor would need but I suspect they're missing. Creative tools in general seem to be a pain point for Linux. Other channels have talked about it with Video, Photo, and Music. Sometimes just plugins that only run on windows or Mac.
I also use a 2nd windows pc - for gaming. Moonlight and sunshine for when i need windows in a window on my linux system. And barrier is soon to work on plasma.
My biggest problems with Linux (or at least Ubuntu Studio as that's the OS I installed) are that my Dazzle DVC100 capture card refuses to make a good capture in OBS, audio and video are WAY outta sync. And on top of that, the audio sounds a bit low-pitched so that doesn't help. Also I make YTPs and the software isn't just there yet (unless I'm not trying hard enough). And don't even get me started on DaVinci Resolve. It can't find Intel Integrated Graphics and yet the Windows version does! The Linux version refuses to open whatsoever because of that! I make simple edits and work with proxies whenever I feel the need to so I don't NEED a graphics card just yet. And did I forget to mention I'm running this on a laptop that doesn't have thunderbolt so an eGPU is out of the question. All I gotta say: Thank God I dual-booted!!
after using linux for 5 years i can say it's get's better than before most problem i had are gone. except some problem like finding a good distro for daily using like Arch is hard. i'm not say arch is bad , it's very good distro but it's so bleeding edge and you must know what you doing during update if you don't. you may get broken system or broken package so it's not good choice for daily system. i try other distro and i write a small review of them. 1) debian stable : very old packages , hard to change mirrors , bad wiki 2) fedora , opensuse tumbleweed and every other distro support rpm package : all of them had hardware acceleration problem it's very hard to install and keep running them and it's very hard to install nvidia on them and had very slow package manager . and my other problem is for wine i know steam get so powerfull and you can run most windows game on linux with steam but that's not true on games you installed on system with windows and you want only lunch it on linux and you can't because vanilla wine with dxvk and vkd3d enabled can't truly communicate with system and i should re-download game from steam to run it on linux
Flatpak vs Snap is holding Linux back. If package management can be universal it would be game changing. Also easier built in container permissions to make it accessible for the average user.
This. I just want a universal Linux package manager. I currently have setup scripts that check for apt, pkg, pacman and yay and use the respective package
just make sure to strip your windows install buddy. rentry made a good guide for win10 LTSC IoT if you're going that route (supported until 2032 unlike other win10 editions), but should work (mostly) for Pro. haven't touched win11 since the LTSC IoT edition isn't out until september/october this year so can't advise on that just yet
Directory Opus (paid) is a perfect file manager in Windows for me. On Linux I stick with Nemo, not perfect but also no glaring issues. Linux needs better remote access: VNC sucks, RDP does not work when monitor is off.
Linux Mint cinnamon its that. I have no problem with Mint. I think its mostly depend users hardware. But everything can always be better, that is true. But for me, its Mint most stable and without any problem. Norwegian in Sweden here. I use Linux for most things. But when I have to work with music production, I use Windows 10. I think the same applies to Video Editing. But aside from that, I use Linux for 90% of my daily time. Everything is so much easier in Linux Mint, so much faster and so much more stable. Whether you are a musician or an advanced video editor! but like the stability and simplicity, so have both Linux and Windows on the same machine. Use what Windows is good at and use what Linux is good at, it's that simple.
The perfect file manager for me is Directory Opus by GPSoftware. Unfortunately, it’s Windows-only, proprietary, and costs 90 Australian dollars. Having switched to Linux, I miss it very much.
KDE - Window Rules - I keep the same apps in the same places on each of my 8 workspaces. When I open an app, the window goes into the same place each time, the same size each time. It's weird tiling. Consistency? Serious? Windows using native apps, Electron apps and the rest? It's just as bad. Really, it is.
To extend your critique of video editing, there is a lack of good design software on linux in general. The main ones being a replacement for Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. I think an InDesign replacement is by far the weakest on that list, but all of these are areas that need work.
@@SirSomnolent Yeah, I get why it hasn't happened from a financial viewpoint. He just made a call at the end of the video for other pain points and I was sharing mine
Where do I go to vote on what should be improved? I think the big issue is that devs choose on their own what they work on and that only accidentally aligns with what the planet should have, if there is any alignment.
Devs are generally going to work on what they're passionate about, since most work is being done in their spare time and unpaid. The best way to be able to vote would be to see if the project you're looking at has a way to sponsor the project/devs - for example, I believe KDE has a way to sponsor getting a particular feature added in.
If you want something specific to be improved, the best way would probably be to do it yourself. Most projects are not organized in a democratic way, and many adopt some kind of "benevolent dictatorship for life".
@@cheako91155 Yeah, I think that's how things should be. Of course, I disagree with the governance model that many FOSS projects adopt, but I do recognize the dev's right to choose. I don't think it's fair to make these demands when many are basically working for free.
If i could use sony vegas 12 on linux, i would but i cant. kdenlive i feel is overcomplicated but works decently for me. scrubbing never is smooth tho, never is with any editor on linux but i found it is a different story on windows. kdenlive's way of adding text is very stupid as well and inconvenient. i thought the way sony vegas 12 handled it was inconvenient but god damn is kdenlive terrible for that.
I feel like I could knock out a usuable file manager in like... a week. Maybe like usual that last 10% would bite me and then making a "great" one would be a bigger deal but stating files in dirs, supporting some scp, sftp or whatnot, it should be pretty easy. The problem is, I cant think of a UI framework I actually like atm. Maybe iced and rust would be nifty?
I know you're just spit balling here, but if you *are* (semi-) serious about this, you should consider that most (if not all) rust graphical tool kits are not accessible in the slightest.
Matt why don't you use davinci resolve on Linux? It's been pretty rock solid for me, but from I've herd it won't with Intel gpus because of lacking opencl
couldn't get it running with my Ryzen 4800u either, tried some kdenlive but it often crashed on me and will try OpenShot next to see if that does it for me.
It's funny that you mention better WMs and file managers. I agree that they _can_ be better, but compared to Mac and Windows, Linux is on a completely different (upper) level. The fact that you have to use TWO instances of Windows Explorer to drag/drop a file from one folder to another (that don't share the same parent folder) is absolutely absurd. Using a file manager without splitview is just painful. I know Dolphin is on Windows too, but it uses a different backend (about as slow as Windows Explorer) and you can't customize QT themes on Windows so it uses its default skin which looks just awful. If Plasma had dynamic tiling, I would move back to it ASAP (currently using Hyprland after Plasma 6 removed window shading)
What do you mean by two instances? Windows Explorer has tabs and you can move files by dragging them to those tabs. You need two windows only for a "split view".
I'm so glad somebody is making a video like this because it seems all I can ever find is Linux zealots praising to the moon and back how much better Linux is than Windows and how everyone should be using it and how anyone using Windows is an idiot. Linux is so freaking far from perfect and I think so much of it stems from the fact that nobody can agree on what anything should be or what it should even do or what should be implemented, which means there's 50 different forks of 12 different things and they're all arranged in different ways to create yet another fork of a fork of an operating system and it just breaks things more than it fixes anything.
These 5 things strike me as symptoms of deeper problems. Window management is always crap because on whatever distro "Nobody was Getting Paid" to make it slick. Audio is always crap because of how "The Hardware Problem" interacts with "The PrimaDonnas and Drama Problem" leading to ALSA and Pulseaudio both thinking they are fundamental whilst having incomplete functionality. File managers have the same problem as window managers further complicated by "The General Divergency Problem", with filesystems going off on their own ways and needing to somehow be supported and have their metadata visible. re. Consistency there isn't a root problem but a feature - Linux makes us realise that what we think is a way of doing something is really our own idiocy. Fedora and Ubuntu are not really very different for a non-programmer end-user, rather it is the user's mistake to think that graphical and muscle-memory stuff like where you click to open the menu, or what command we type to update our packages, forms part of the user interface. Video editing goes back to nobody's getting paid, but it will eventually catch up because the incredibly complex task of editing a video is ultimately finite.
Well stated Matt! My biggest frustration is a functional email client. Among other things, I am a professor who works at several institutions. Each school uses Microsoft Outlook. That means I have eight Microsoft emails. I can get it to work on Thunderbird, but the fonts sometimes look unprofessional, I sometimes miss emails, etc. I hate that something so simple keeps me from completely switching to linux. Keep up the excellent work my brother!
I feel your pain Matt. If it was me i would have a used that proxmox and get a vm that kdenlive works on and not update it lol unless i need to but that is just me.
Let me add a twist to that last point. Try editing 6-8 hour Twitch stream VODs off a NAS in Linux. It just doesn’t work at all. Linux hates mounting a NAS share in any simple way like Windows or MacOS. So you edit /etc/fstab to make it work, which no normie user is going to do. Okay now the editor can see and import from the NAS. Buuuuuuut the files are so large that every editor crashes on import. I’ve been trying to find a solution for months; but so far nothing works. I can edit local files without issue, currently using DaVinci and Shotcut.
Finding it crazy that audio has been "stable for a year" is not somthing I thought I would ever hear about an operating system...
If DaVinci Resolve just shipped a flatpak it would be so much easier.
Totally agree.
For all it's worth I think there is no way around flatpaks becoming the standard for bassically all software in the future. Repos will not be gone, but restricted to Distromaintainance, Desktop/Window managers and maybe some core Applications.
I posted the exact same thing in another video. Lets's start a petition!
@@nord2992 I'm thinking that about the nix package manager it can be like a package manager for everything non-core I use nix-shell -p to test alot of software it can be buggy but I feel like if there was more eyes on it it would smoothen out quickly
Try distrobox if something is already packaged for another distro. It doesn't always work because the apps don't expect to run inisde a container but it's worth a shot definitely easier than dual booting especially dealing with windows
We also NEED A BETTER BLUETOOTH, it's really tiring not being able to use something because the bt connection is dogwater
Damn right! I fucking hate the stuttering every time i tried to use bluetooth eaphones, which would work perfectly fine on my android phone
I had to buy cable earphones instead
That's a good one
I find it better than on Windows for the simple reason i can use more than one usb dongle. When my headphones, mouse, and keyboard are all connected I get crackles on audio in Windows and Linux. But on Linux I was able to pair the headphones using one USB dongle, and the keyboard, mouse, and trackpad to a separate one. Which results in no crackles
I think I installed and removed 3 different bt managers before I got to blueman. I don't use it often but I haven't noticed any issues. I have an i3 mode that switches audio outputs using the alsa name which includes the id of the Bluetooth device to avoid pactl changing sink numbers
Bluetuith is a good one.
Linux is ALMOST perfect. For me. Very few issues. Especially compared to the certain other OS that is generally shoved down our throats.
If you are open to disabling the audio on the webcam, you can do that by disabling the ALSA device via a custom udev rule or WirePlumber config file. That way, PipeWire can never use the device since it cannot see it.
The audio problem also exists in Windows when you have multiple inputs and outputs. At my company we using a lot Teams and even Skype, and every time is someone hawing problem with microphone or headset which is not working. From about 20 computers in my group which is the same model and same age it was one that took several weeks to fix because it always switched to Line in on the back for audio input.
Makes sense; people have computers with different OSs for specific uses, getting things done efficiently.
Exactly. I am about to buy an old Mac mini for audio (music) recording and production. I am just a hobbyist, but there are just too many plugins etc., that only work with windows or mac. Watchagonnado?
I can understand that. Not sure if a full blown OS is actually needing to be different. I suppose Linux installs can be different for that reason. Or having different environments.
For software that just runs on top of an OS the reason isn't really the OS but lack of support or alternatives that hit the same spot.
IMHO Olive was the OSS video editor with the greatest potential for being one of the only ones not based off MLT (which Kdenlive is) and having a powerful nodes system, but sadly it hasn't gathered enough attention and the main dev has pretty much given up on it, which is a real shame but understandable.
Shotcut is very similar to Kdenlive in features (it's based off MLT too, so it shares the same core), but in my experience it's a bit more stable.
Audio with Bluetooth is definitely need of improvement. I discovered a new bug/frustration that when I'm using me Bluetooth 1More S50 earbuds and pair the DualSense controller. The audio goes from fine to every couple of seconds, it fades in and out of both earbud individually. So the audio gets incredibly inconsistent when I have the Dualsense controller paired.. much sad.
Bluetooth is awful regardless of platform.
Definitely agree with points 1, 2, 4 and 5. I only somewhat agree with point 3, but I think Dolphin is a pretty good file manager and it does have tabs and works fairly well. Regarding point one, I've not heard from anyone else that really uses virtual desktops the way I do. Since I use KDE and can change any shortcut I've got shortcuts setup to move things to specific desktops and to navigate instantly myself, as well as the ability to tab through them forwards and backwards. I use 12 virtual desktops and I keep things open for weeks, if not months. I've got a media player open on desktop 12 permanently. I've even made sure it's the only program which listens for the media keys. I've done things that way for 25-ish years, as long as I've been using KDE. Also, regarding point 5, I think a good video editor is a key piece of software that we need if we hope to attract more users. Whether anyone necessarily cares for Linux to have more users, I think it could improve things because it could bring more funding for development.
Linux has its flaws yes linux can do better its only as good as the people who manage their packages. Linux is a better alternative than to having your privacy taken away like window's
I ran only linux for several years until I got back into gaming.....now that gaming works I am back after MS pushed my last nerve with Recall.
Sure you use Linux phone and font have any smart gadgets
Kdenlive is the one piece of Linux software that drove me NUTS. I had the same issues where it would work, and then break. At this point it's just freezing for me and I have given up on it totally. Resolve NEVER seems to work either. I switched to OpenShot and have had much better luck. But, for me anyway, my editing needs are pretty simple.
Openshot, just keeps working, and very under rated. This guy doesn't do anything elaborate, where he needs something like Davinci.
To me, the lack of a real alternative photo/image editing software on Linux is a much bigger issue than video editing. There are at least some viable options for video editing, not so much for images (maybe Photopea, but even it is inadequate for large-scale projects).
What about darktable? I've grown to like it over the years. Its not an alternative to photoshop, but if you're missing lightroom it might work.
You didn't mention Gimp, have you tried that? If not, try it but be aware of a rather steep learning curve if you have not worked with layers before. Ther are a lot of tutorials online, though.
Informative take on Linux. Thank you.
Just one remark, instead of buying a Windows Box straight away, you could have tried
a different Linux distro with the Video editing SW that you couldn't get to run so far, as
it seems (you said as much) it is working ok on Rocky-Linux.
maybe it would be interesting to make a poll to see how many people actually have more than one maximized window shown often enough that they would consider more or less complicated window management to be important. It could be that clicking on the panel to switch between the apps (or pressing super+numbers) is all it takes to do all that 95% of people need and it's a good enough default. Opening a text editor and a web browser side by side sometimes is the only case for this I personally have and it's not worth configuring anything over it, nor am I really interested in random terminal windows I temporarily open being tiled. I still assign all of my apps to workspaces even on plasma but this may just be that I got used to it too much on gnome, I sometimes open overview and I can't stand to have more than a few windows per workspace, and they're grouped semantically, like a workspace for messaging apps for instance. But realistically when I'm usually switching between a messenger and a text editor or browser, I'm not really using workspaces
I have what seems like a trivial audio setup, just digital audio out via some DP/HDMI ports. The names of the monitors is stable and unique (DP-1 etc.), why in tarnation can't pipewire just use those names instead of randoming which output is named what? We may never know, because it usually seems to but the sometimes decides DP-1 should be "Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output 3". Also, all it needs to do it resample and mux audio, then send it out as a digital signal. It fails at that on a daily basis which gets worse with longer uptime, so I end up rebooting up to several times per day because just restarting the user service isn't enough.
You can't fight the universe. Over the years I've learned, that if a thing doesn't have something wrong with it, the thing in question is not a text editor, nor a file manager.
A thing with file managers is there never seem to be an option to show the folders size on the size column rather than the 4KB block size (without checking the properties), which I’m not interested about
Consistency between distros. We, as human beings, are very inconsistent. We can have flame wars over distros, cars, clothes, anything among ourselves. You are partial to file managers. I could care less about them. Regarding which is best or even good is a matter of personal taste and preference. So, consistency becomes a problem. No matter what standard of consistency you pick, there will be a group of users who don't like it. Consistency or standardization requires that there be only one way to do things. Choice goes out the window. Windows is consistent and has standards. Mac is consistent and has standards. I'll bet that more than one of their standards doesn't appeal to you while those same standards appeal to others just fine. Some could care less about ricing their desktop. Others are fantastical about it. Are you willing to sacrifice your ability to rice your desktop in the name of consistency? Are you willing to sacrifice your work flow in the name of standardization? We are not even close to being alike. Consistency and standardization only works for those who say what consistency should look like and how things should work. Otherwise, they become a source of continual frustration and even depression.
My Steam Deck will sometimes do something strange with switching the audio output when plugging it into the TV, especially in desktop mode. It's a lot better than it used to be, but occasionally it will not switch right. It doesn't help that it has some strange outputs that aren't the internal speakers and aren't the TV, and aren't explained.
hello , my name is Matt and I am a recovering Krusader user......
It's taken courage for Matt to be here today. Everyone should respect his Krusader story.
Lack of full support for mp4 in the Linux version of Davinci Resolve was the reason I gave up on daily driving Linux desktop.
I replaced a lifetime of windows usage with two machines and it’s working surprisingly well for me, I almost don’t want to jinx it. My creative work has been on a base m2 Mac mini for the same reasons you’re picking up windows again, but using a separate Linux machine as my main file server and daily driver for everything else has been great. It’s very nearly the best of both worlds. Jumping between Mac and Linux is honestly a bit jarring still but I assume it only gets easier with experience.
Try it this way, with nothing running in the background. #1 Open OBS, adjust the Audio using levers in OBS, make your video. Save the file to your PC. #2 Open Davinci, edit your video, without touching the Audio, Render and save your file to your PC. Don't share it, from Davinci to the platforms. #3 Open the file from your PC, watch it, then share to Platform from there. Never ever had any problems doing it this way. 100% success rate.
Dolphin is life
what file manager are you using now Matt? I've stopped using Krusader and went to dolphin but it's not the same...
@@gudurana2150 I'm still on Krusader but it has been very buggy lately.
@@TheLinuxCast thankfully they already started the transition to qt6 but who knows how long it's going to take them...
btw, have you checked CliFM? it's a cool ls/cli file manager
I would add internet access to this. I know that the browser sort of deals with this and that's an application not a Linux feature but I think considering how important using the internet is, there should be some sort of OS feature like how, with certain android launchers, you can search the web with the global search. Food for thought
I come from windows where I used Directory Opus as main File manager, and the closest thing to it on Linux is Krusader. I was able to fix all Krusaders problems (image preview, extraction tools, default opening program) by downgrading 3 packages, can’t remember their names now but I’ll edit the comments with them tomorrow.
Edit:
Downgrade these packages:
ark: 24.01.75-1
kio-extras: 23.08.5-1
kservice5: 5.115.0-1
If only Gstreamer would shift focus to media production from media streaming and improve their documentation. That would be the best way to produce video content for any platform.
I've had the odd problem with audio not switching outputs, but most of the time it's not an issue. On the othe hand, my wife's Windows 10 machine has all sorts of strange issues with audio, not switching outputs, entire audio system muting because some app uses MediaPlayer APIs and despite the master volume for the system showing 100%, nothing is hearable because the media player over rides all audio. An example, she turned the volume way down on an ad in Microsoft Casual Games (Spider Solitaire) then even RUclips videos were very quiet despite all volumes being set to 100%, solution, open the windows media player and turn up the volume there.
As for consistency, doesn't help that so many devs think that their way to do things is the only way and can't get over that someone else might have a different way that works.
thank you! i thought i was going crazy with pipewire and everybody else says it works.
filemanager remembering positions? on wayland? ur funny matt :)
Matt, 2 questions:
- out of curiosity, have you tried DavinciResolve while you were on Gentoo ?
- isn't Blender also a pretty capable video editor ? I know it's main thing is 3D editing, but I remember people using it just as a video editor. And it is FOSS. And probably more stable than Kdenlive. Probably has pretty limited features though
This is a really good video. Love your take on this.
For file management, I would do anything to have a FOSS file manager as robust as Directory Opus (DOpus) on Linux. Oh yes, daddy.... ANYTHING. Jokes aside, Dolphin is really good but I have not found anything that matches DOpus. It's not free software, and recently with the release of DOpus 13 they moved to a subscription model (puke), so I did get it for a year but have really been searching for something else while coming up sort. Like I said, Dolphin is okay, but it's a distant second. I also agree with Linux being subpar on the sound front as well. And while on the topic of sound, it's also worth noting that high quality music players for my digitized collection of music is lacking. I am a whale for stores like eClassical and Hyperion, and spend a lot of time shopping in brick and mortar used record stores, so I value my collection. Music players on Linux are alright, but I have never found anything as powerful as MusicBee. Most Linux players look like something straight out of the 90'a or early 2000's and for some reason many FOSS players on Linux seem to have an aversion with regard to highlighting album art. Quod Libet is alright, though... but, again, a distant second place to the Windows only MusicBee.
Two words: POWER EFFICIENCY.
For all its bloat, Windows still kicks Linux's butt in most cases when it comes to battery life. How come? This should be a priority going forward.
Is this a driver thing? Because usually I hear that linux runs faster than windows on laptops, uses less ram, etc, which is why people use it on old dying laptops. But maybe the drivers for some components doesn't let it go into lower power states as easily?
Windows as an OS for laptops has tens of thousands of developer hours behind it. This is not to mention that Windows works directly with hardware manufacturers to enable things like power efficiency. Linux *could* get there, but there is not of enough demand for it on both sides (consumers and manufacturers)
I don't know which laptop distro you had but I really can't say windows is more efficient when you litterally can't run it on anything sub 16gb RAM.
Re: audio with PulseAudio & Pipewire: Some time back I commented on one of the Linux Forums (Manjaro) that I'd noticed a big improvement in audio quality with PulseAudio, particularly deep bass response. Others replied that they too had noticed it. Having recently switched to Pipewire on this one, I'd say the audio is just as good. Just need to configure simultaneous outputs as I had with PA.
… This is wired via a decent stereo system/speakers or (what I consider) a good headset via Bluetooth.
I'm bummed that you're moving your editing to windows. I agree that this is a really weak spot, but I'd personally still rather deal with kdenlive's issues than switch to Windows. You might even consider Reaper if you're just editing youtube videos. The video editing capability isn't fancy, but it gets the job done if you're editing the kind of videos you post on your channel. Plus if you use Reaper you can start using some of the really good noise reduction plugins available.
I've never done it but doesn't Blender also edit 2D video?
The audio device changing is also present on Windows. Can't you just disable that audio device like on Windows?
To me Linux is like DIY drag race used car, chromeos, linux mint and zorinos is a budget used car, macos is a Tesla and windows is a Ferrari. Treated well all of them have their usecases. But if you aren't rich you probably don't need to be using windows or macos unless your job gave it to you free IMO;
I always have a hard time connecting my phone to my laptop. It works sometimes but always fails the day I need it to work. It's very frustrating. Bluetooth and audio definitely need to improve. I was able to work on some solutions so I'm okay for now. As for video editors, I agree with you. Kdenlive is OK for small projects. I have to use my Windows laptop for larger projects and when you're working against the clock.
I wonder if the video editors crash less for you on windows. Usually I don't have crash issues on windows, but I hear video editors (especially premiere) do crash a lot. It might be worse than kdenlive
First, Matt should put all his critiques of Linux file managers down into a specification requirements for what he thinks would be the perfect iteration. As someone who uses a sheel for 99% of file management stuff, it's not easy to follow along with what the big deal of the various GUI file managers are. Second, there's a video about getting DaVinci Resolve to work using Distrobox to create a specific Rocky Linux container for the app and run it that way, it's titled "How to (best) install DaVinci Resolve on Linux" by "Robo n' Tux Guides".
Have you considered installing Kdenlive as a flatpak then disabling updates for it? And maybe go all out and disable updates for the runtime that it uses.
Audio on Linux just sucks.... :( Are any of you guys using an equalizer over pipewire? I just want to stream Spotify and make it actually sound good, should not be a major deal, right?!? I've been using JamesDSP for a while but now it just doesn't work anymore on my setup... advice on good alternatives appreciated, thanks !
have you tried easyeffects? it works fine on my machine
Directory Opus is closest to the perfect thing yet.
I agree with most of it. Da Vinci Resolve is the best video editor on Linux, period! You still need an Nvidia card to get it to run properly. On AMD it just doesn't work in a good way. I also bought a used Macbook in order to edit videos in a good way, but then I felt that I needed my good Linux machine for anything else and that I had invested a lot of money in it (Ram, Nvme, CPU) so that I decided to get an Nvidia card and Da Vinci runs perfectly fine on Nobara/Fedora Linux with Nvidia.
Nothing is perfect,all things could be improved.
Linux needs a mid-tier photo editor. Something like what the old PhotoImpact used to be on Windows. It seems Linux only has basic level and professional level editors. In other words, you can only have a Windows Paint alternative or a Photoshop alternative; nothing in between. What I really loved about PhotoImpact, when it still existed, is that you could do very basic stuff extremely quickly but it had enough advanced and very advanced tools to do more fancy stuff. If there's something like that already on Linux, I haven't come across it yet and believe me, I've done a *lot* of searching.
For simple task I am using Irfanview. Running well under Wine.
You should try to build that file manager now with Claude
davinci works ootb on some more niche distros, for example nobara has a davinci fixups script, which probably does everything you usually need to do manually to make it run on fedora - and it is actually the easiest way I have ever experienced to make resolve run on linux, the only thing I wish it also added was a kde plasma workspace rule to force a titlebar on it
Same as in 2014... But tbh things improved much since then.
File managers need video and image tumbnails, the latter mostly works but video thumbnails I've only gotten to workish few times in file pickers never. In theory video tumbnails should be able to use ffmpeg and mostly work
yeah unfortunately even after installing Davinci, there's still another hoop to jump through - H264/H265 and AAC codec support:(
Haven't used resolve in a while, but it worked fine in fedora when I last tried it. Zero issues installing or running it. No crashes.
The problems this guy is having is not directly coming from Resolve, it is coming from all the customizations he makes overall. You pick a distro and keep it close to stock, you don't get many issues.
I think with your complaints about window management and file managers, it would be useful to be more specific. Really specific complaints can be very useful for open source software.
Matt, can you maybe compare TW to Fedora? I wonder why you changed to TW
Lack of consistency between Linux distros. I hear you there. The only unification I see for many distros, is the Debian backing to make software installation easier. I know this doesn't unify anything else. You're still going to run into many other differences and/or problems.
Do you ever try Openshot or Shortcut for video editing?
Yes
OpenShot seems OK for minimal editing. It can work for simple things at least. Not sure what features an actual editor would need but I suspect they're missing.
Creative tools in general seem to be a pain point for Linux. Other channels have talked about it with Video, Photo, and Music. Sometimes just plugins that only run on windows or Mac.
I also use a 2nd windows pc - for gaming. Moonlight and sunshine for when i need windows in a window on my linux system. And barrier is soon to work on plasma.
With steam/proton you can run a lot more than you use to. There are problems with a few titles, mostly due to anti-cheat.
My biggest problems with Linux (or at least Ubuntu Studio as that's the OS I installed) are that my Dazzle DVC100 capture card refuses to make a good capture in OBS, audio and video are WAY outta sync. And on top of that, the audio sounds a bit low-pitched so that doesn't help.
Also I make YTPs and the software isn't just there yet (unless I'm not trying hard enough). And don't even get me started on DaVinci Resolve. It can't find Intel Integrated Graphics and yet the Windows version does! The Linux version refuses to open whatsoever because of that! I make simple edits and work with proxies whenever I feel the need to so I don't NEED a graphics card just yet. And did I forget to mention I'm running this on a laptop that doesn't have thunderbolt so an eGPU is out of the question.
All I gotta say: Thank God I dual-booted!!
after using linux for 5 years i can say it's get's better than before most problem i had are gone. except some problem like finding a good distro for daily using like Arch is hard. i'm not say arch is bad , it's very good distro but it's so bleeding edge and you must know what you doing during update if you don't. you may get broken system or broken package so it's not good choice for daily system. i try other distro and i write a small review of them. 1) debian stable : very old packages , hard to change mirrors , bad wiki 2) fedora , opensuse tumbleweed and every other distro support rpm package : all of them had hardware acceleration problem it's very hard to install and keep running them and it's very hard to install nvidia on them and had very slow package manager . and my other problem is for wine i know steam get so powerfull and you can run most windows game on linux with steam but that's not true on games you installed on system with windows and you want only lunch it on linux and you can't because vanilla wine with dxvk and vkd3d enabled can't truly communicate with system and i should re-download game from steam to run it on linux
when openSUSE changes its name will you keep it
Last time I cut video, I found only ffmpeg could copy the encoded content to a new file.
This should be a yearly thing
Flatpak vs Snap is holding Linux back. If package management can be universal it would be game changing. Also easier built in container permissions to make it accessible for the average user.
This. I just want a universal Linux package manager. I currently have setup scripts that check for apt, pkg, pacman and yay and use the respective package
Arguably, Flatpak and Snap *are* a universal package manager in Linux. It would be nice to see more companies making official packages for them.
just make sure to strip your windows install buddy. rentry made a good guide for win10 LTSC IoT if you're going that route (supported until 2032 unlike other win10 editions), but should work (mostly) for Pro. haven't touched win11 since the LTSC IoT edition isn't out until september/october this year so can't advise on that just yet
Directory Opus (paid) is a perfect file manager in Windows for me. On Linux I stick with Nemo, not perfect but also no glaring issues.
Linux needs better remote access: VNC sucks, RDP does not work when monitor is off.
Linux Mint cinnamon its that. I have no problem with Mint. I think its mostly depend users hardware. But everything can always be better, that is true. But for me, its Mint most stable and without any problem. Norwegian in Sweden here. I use Linux for most things. But when I have to work with music production, I use Windows 10. I think the same applies to Video Editing. But aside from that, I use Linux for 90% of my daily time. Everything is so much easier in Linux Mint, so much faster and so much more stable. Whether you are a musician or an advanced video editor! but like the stability and simplicity, so have both Linux and Windows on the same machine. Use what Windows is good at and use what Linux is good at, it's that simple.
Linux needs a welcome wagon
The perfect file manager for me is Directory Opus by GPSoftware.
Unfortunately, it’s Windows-only, proprietary, and costs 90 Australian dollars.
Having switched to Linux, I miss it very much.
I had it working on Linux with wine with some problems but, it was very useful. I just found after a while i didn't real need it anymore.
KDE - Window Rules - I keep the same apps in the same places on each of my 8 workspaces. When I open an app, the window goes into the same place each time, the same size each time. It's weird tiling.
Consistency? Serious? Windows using native apps, Electron apps and the rest? It's just as bad. Really, it is.
To extend your critique of video editing, there is a lack of good design software on linux in general. The main ones being a replacement for Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. I think an InDesign replacement is by far the weakest on that list, but all of these are areas that need work.
It's very difficult to justify gpl if you've got a team capable of knocking that out. You're leaving a lot of money on the table
@@SirSomnolent Yeah, I get why it hasn't happened from a financial viewpoint. He just made a call at the end of the video for other pain points and I was sharing mine
Where do I go to vote on what should be improved? I think the big issue is that devs choose on their own what they work on and that only accidentally aligns with what the planet should have, if there is any alignment.
Devs are generally going to work on what they're passionate about, since most work is being done in their spare time and unpaid.
The best way to be able to vote would be to see if the project you're looking at has a way to sponsor the project/devs - for example, I believe KDE has a way to sponsor getting a particular feature added in.
If you want something specific to be improved, the best way would probably be to do it yourself. Most projects are not organized in a democratic way, and many adopt some kind of "benevolent dictatorship for life".
@@russjr08 Is that best, or even good? Don't think you've accomplished something by describing how horribly bad things are.
@@carloscapelatto3084 Is that best, or even good? Don't think you've accomplished something by describing how horribly bad things are.
@@cheako91155 Yeah, I think that's how things should be. Of course, I disagree with the governance model that many FOSS projects adopt, but I do recognize the dev's right to choose. I don't think it's fair to make these demands when many are basically working for free.
If i could use sony vegas 12 on linux, i would but i cant. kdenlive i feel is overcomplicated but works decently for me. scrubbing never is smooth tho, never is with any editor on linux but i found it is a different story on windows. kdenlive's way of adding text is very stupid as well and inconvenient. i thought the way sony vegas 12 handled it was inconvenient but god damn is kdenlive terrible for that.
be cool if we had something like stage manager on KDE and Gnome.
Try Directory Opus file manager, they don't come better than that. Sadly its only on windows but will run on wine.
Linux need dolby digital codec support for 5.1 suround sound i vant mske it work connect in the digital port but it will work if i use analog cable
What's your issue with pcman fm?
I feel like I could knock out a usuable file manager in like... a week. Maybe like usual that last 10% would bite me and then making a "great" one would be a bigger deal but stating files in dirs, supporting some scp, sftp or whatnot, it should be pretty easy.
The problem is, I cant think of a UI framework I actually like atm. Maybe iced and rust would be nifty?
I know you're just spit balling here, but if you *are* (semi-) serious about this, you should consider that most (if not all) rust graphical tool kits are not accessible in the slightest.
Alternative title:
5 Things Linux Desktop Could Do Better (2024)
i'll try crusade but caja is probably gonna be my forever
dude i live in workspaces i use like 4 to 5 on kde :)
@@CRYPTiCEXiLE I use 4 workspaces on Mint cinnamon
Hi
With all respect, Pop-OS has very good tiling , and is two clicks away to get activated by default. The rest I agree with.
You can also just install it on gnome regardless of distro
Matt why don't you use davinci resolve on Linux? It's been pretty rock solid for me, but from I've herd it won't with Intel gpus because of lacking opencl
couldn't get it running with my Ryzen 4800u either, tried some kdenlive but it often crashed on me and will try OpenShot next to see if that does it for me.
Do you reencode your stuff into an uncompressed format to edit using davinci?
what's sucks on linux? drive partition management, bootloader & CUPS(printer)
Dude... have you seen those windows equivalents?
I never got good looking fonts in Linux while macos font rendering is superb. It’s probably a skill issue on my side
Anyone had much luck with OpenShot?
It's funny that you mention better WMs and file managers. I agree that they _can_ be better, but compared to Mac and Windows, Linux is on a completely different (upper) level.
The fact that you have to use TWO instances of Windows Explorer to drag/drop a file from one folder to another (that don't share the same parent folder) is absolutely absurd. Using a file manager without splitview is just painful.
I know Dolphin is on Windows too, but it uses a different backend (about as slow as Windows Explorer) and you can't customize QT themes on Windows so it uses its default skin which looks just awful.
If Plasma had dynamic tiling, I would move back to it ASAP (currently using Hyprland after Plasma 6 removed window shading)
What do you mean by two instances? Windows Explorer has tabs and you can move files by dragging them to those tabs. You need two windows only for a "split view".
Should try blender's video editor. Doesnt work for what i do but its best on linux
I think I last updated kdenlive like a year ago?
is openshot any good? compared to kdenlive?
Openshot is very good, has an easy to use interface, but many hidden easy to get to features.
Cosmic looks very promising.
I'm so glad somebody is making a video like this because it seems all I can ever find is Linux zealots praising to the moon and back how much better Linux is than Windows and how everyone should be using it and how anyone using Windows is an idiot.
Linux is so freaking far from perfect and I think so much of it stems from the fact that nobody can agree on what anything should be or what it should even do or what should be implemented, which means there's 50 different forks of 12 different things and they're all arranged in different ways to create yet another fork of a fork of an operating system and it just breaks things more than it fixes anything.
These 5 things strike me as symptoms of deeper problems. Window management is always crap because on whatever distro "Nobody was Getting Paid" to make it slick. Audio is always crap because of how "The Hardware Problem" interacts with "The PrimaDonnas and Drama Problem" leading to ALSA and Pulseaudio both thinking they are fundamental whilst having incomplete functionality. File managers have the same problem as window managers further complicated by "The General Divergency Problem", with filesystems going off on their own ways and needing to somehow be supported and have their metadata visible. re. Consistency there isn't a root problem but a feature - Linux makes us realise that what we think is a way of doing something is really our own idiocy. Fedora and Ubuntu are not really very different for a non-programmer end-user, rather it is the user's mistake to think that graphical and muscle-memory stuff like where you click to open the menu, or what command we type to update our packages, forms part of the user interface. Video editing goes back to nobody's getting paid, but it will eventually catch up because the incredibly complex task of editing a video is ultimately finite.
Dired on emacs has been the end-all file manager for me
Well stated Matt! My biggest frustration is a functional email client. Among other things, I am a professor who works at several institutions. Each school uses Microsoft Outlook. That means I have eight Microsoft emails. I can get it to work on Thunderbird, but the fonts sometimes look unprofessional, I sometimes miss emails, etc. I hate that something so simple keeps me from completely switching to linux. Keep up the excellent work my brother!
I feel your pain Matt. If it was me i would have a used that proxmox and get a vm that kdenlive works on and not update it lol unless i need to but that is just me.
Let me add a twist to that last point. Try editing 6-8 hour Twitch stream VODs off a NAS in Linux.
It just doesn’t work at all. Linux hates mounting a NAS share in any simple way like Windows or MacOS. So you edit /etc/fstab to make it work, which no normie user is going to do.
Okay now the editor can see and import from the NAS. Buuuuuuut the files are so large that every editor crashes on import.
I’ve been trying to find a solution for months; but so far nothing works. I can edit local files without issue, currently using DaVinci and Shotcut.
Sky be looking blue rn
do a kdenlive review from the current version (or do a live edit). It has got better tbh imho
mint filemanager is very good and lightyears ahead of windows