Use shit, get hit
this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2026
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No real reason to use clipchamp...
No real reason to use Winslop 11 either though.
I wish that were true, but it's not.
As a UNIX Admin w/ 30+ years of UNIX admin experience, I am literally required to use Windows 11 for work.
Yes, I have my Fedora system running XFCE for work too (it's also my vagrant test bed), but I like millions of others am required to use winslop and it's how work requirements go sometimes.
Truth.
Am still clinging to Win 10 Pro. Since I mostly game with the PC, and watch videos with that machine.. do I really need to upgrade the OS as long as the games run? At least at this point, I won't get a gaming session interrupted by an update anymore, which is nice.
You should take a look at the games support for Valve's Proton project. Games in Steam now mostly work perfectly in Linux because of it.
There is a very, very short list of games that don't "just work" in linux at this point.
If your daily gaming is nothing but LoL or twitch competitive shooters and you've gotta play whatever the trend is, linux won't work 100% of the time. In basically any other case, it just works for gaming. If you MUST play some kind of competitive shooter, it's real easy to have a dual boot setup with windows for that game.
If the competitive shooters you want are supported here, there's no reason to use windows for gaming. https://areweanticheatyet.com/ - Right now the biggest pain points are probably Battlefield 6, Call of Duty, League of Legends, Apex, Valorant, Fortnite... aka the games where the teenagers tell you how they fucked your mom. Many, many other titles just work, like The Finals, ARC Raiders, Counter-Strike 2, etc.
Even with some games that do not have anti-cheat support, you can still run the game, you just have to join servers setup for linux that effectively do not have anticheat enabled. I think real flesh and blood admins do a better job anyway.
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Kdenlive too.
I switched to kdenlive after I couldn't get Davinci to function properly on linux
@Larry KDEN! I new I was forgetting something. Gonna add that to the list in my reply.
Kden is better than it has any right to be. I'm not professional by any means, but it's quite useful
Blender has a Video Editing UI mode too.
I'm not sure how it compares; all I do in terms of editing is typically shortening video files. So if it's missing features people would expect, I likely wouldn't even know
Whoops that version was slightly out of date..... by 5¾ years.
But I can now confirm it's still in there in modern versions
I use it at work, works fine for basic stuff. I can’t install anything on work PC but Blender can be downloaded and used in a portable version. IT hates this one trick
DaVinci is also a one time payment with lifetime updates if you want the premium features, no stupid subscription or rebuying when the new version releases.
The worst part about it is that it doesn't officially support Linux very well.
@Joelk111 I've been on Resolve since 15! Never spent another dime on it.
I only include the free version in conversations like these, because if you were gonna use something like Clipchamp, you probably didn't need all the extra features of Resolve Studio.
Oh for sure, it's super incredibly cool that a free version exists that's basically full featured for trying it out.
ShotCut is my personal favourite of those. Simple but powerful, though the UI is admittedly clunky.
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Any program that requires OneDrive should be taken outside and shot.
Specially fitting that one FOSS alternative to this one is openSHOT
I just spat water all over! Good one
~~Any program that requires~~ OneDrive should be taken outside and shot.
Ftfy
Windows should be taken outside and shot.
Ftftfy
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I used to rule the world [Unregistered HyperCam 2]
My Kdenlive video editor continues to save wherever I want it to for free. Just saying.
And yes, it has a Windows version, if you're too much of a coward to migrate to Linux.
Kdenlive is wild. It's got almost all the features Adobe premiere has.
The best feature they've kept out is the subscription you have to pay to cancel.
split up the monopolies
Use linux
TIL microslop provided a video editing tool post 2020
TIL it's been enshittified to the point of not bothering to ever use it
I didn't use it when it was "free". I sure as hell won't use when it's tied to OneDrive, which can die in a pit fire.
"free"
Clipchamp? Sheesh. Waiting for "apps" called Yo, Bruh and so on
Enshittification...
Is it still Enshitification if it was shitty from the start?
Enshitification²
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Foie gras version of enshittification
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oh no!
anyway
Free movie editing on windows peaked on fucking vista.
I miss windows movie maker, it was so simple and effective. Of course thats probably why they killed it.
In case this is something of a deal breaker for someone, please try setting up a VM and playing around with Linux. You don't need to install it on your main system, or try dual booting it, but load up a VM and give it a shot. You don't have to stick with it and if you don't like it or it doesn't work for you or it's too confusing or whatever, that's fine. At least you can say that you gave it a shot.
You don't even need Linux. Kdenlive has a Windows version.
lol I already have davinci, Microsoft, you can't get me :)
How long until Microsoft stops supporting Clipchamp altogether? Place your bets.
I will never ever never ever use one drive. I'll raise my kids never to use it.
I WILL NEVER USE ONE DRIVE!
womp womp
The program now requires video projects to be saved to Microsoft’s OneDrive cloud storage service in order to continue editing them, reports Windows Latest.
According to Microsoft, the media files themselves (such as video clips and images) don’t necessarily need to be synced to the cloud.
This is less shitty than I expected. Forcing people to put videos and images in OneDrive could have pushed them towards paying for more OneDrive space, but if it's just the project file I'm not even sure why Microsoft made the change. Are Clipchamp project files big?
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