It's just a Tuesday and I am once again struck by how I'm just using Linux now? After the slight hassle of setting it up (wow my brain does not like new things sometimes) after install with the help of a friend, I've just been using it? All my things, I'm doing them?
Everything works, there's barely been any problems and none that a rolling back to earlier snapshot didn't fix, and I've even now used a video editing software after years of not doing that? It's nice.
This is my message to all of you extremely annoyed and dismayed by all the bullshit by all the different corporations! You can just not!
Sure, it'll be more effort and wrinkle your brain for a little bit, and the advice can sometimes be not that great but there's good people giving actual good advice too, but after that you'll be FREE 
@sinituulia you can just not!
I recently made the jump for my desktop too, it's great. What video editing software are you using? I'm trying Resolve but it does have some quirks.
@aly I've only tried Shotcut so far, mostly because I could find it directly in the nice graphic software installer programme. 😄
Thus far it's let me do everything I've wanted and a whole bunch of stuff I genuinely don't know that a human being would need to do... It's not entirely intuitive after using Final Cut, Premier and Lightworks, but then again I've not looked at one tutorial and still managed to use it somewhat? Seems like it does a lot of things I used to use Handbrake to do, too.
@amenonsen Just based off comparisons of software (I used to watch a lot of "today I'm testing this software" videos) and what I've seen so far, it's worlds and worlds better as per UI, while already having had some pretty robust functionality?
Back at school I literally could not make Final Cut produce a video format that would have let me put a couple of hours of a theatre play onto an USB stick to deliver it to the person distributing it, and had to use Handbrake to squeeze it down to a moveable size. I even had to buy a several hundred gigs portable hard drive to even get it home to Handbrake it! It was a huge huge faff with all the encoding and everything, and barely anything talked with each other.
Now I can just click a bunch of options and it magically wangs it into a format that Just Works and lets me compress it otherwise. Fucking magical.
Back then even the "professional" software didn't let me do that!
@sinituulia Say, did you use any of those (video editor/colour grading) programs that work with custom trackballs and that sort of thing? I don't know anything about them, but I've seen ads/intros that make me think I NEED one right away even if editing video isn't a thing I do.
(I don't actually know any professional editors who use them either.)
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