I’m feeling more tired about Windows, and the reason I haven’t switched yet to Linux is because I need some programs that only exist on Windows. But, at this point, I’m focusing on ditching these programs and finding alternatives for them…

Last year, I experienced Linux Mint, but, at least on my PC, it feels clunky when I need to do some little video editions and I found it more stable on Windows.

However, I’m going to try again Linux distros with a virtual box, but I’m a little “”“scared”“” to move on again to Linux Mint since my last experience with editing videos.

I don’t need an extremely powerful program to make these editions. Olive, or something like that, suits me perfectly. So, in your opinion, which distro should I try on one virtual box for my daily use for these purposes?

Making a dual boot, from your point of view, is problematic? I see so many different opinions about dual boot, but at this time, I don’t know what to think.

My pc

  • Processor: AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 2100GE with Radeon veja graphics

  • RAM: 8gb

Edit : ty for the replys so far, mates

  • EugeniaEnglish
    0•5 months ago

    The most stable linux video editor is KdenLive, along possibly Shotcut. The distro doesn’t matter much, as long as its underlying video libraries it ships with are stable versions. Most often, it’s these libraries that crash, and not the editor on top. If these two programs don’t work for you, I suggest you stay with Windows and use CapCut.

    Olive is very ustable.

  • @InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world
    0•5 months ago

    It might be helpful to get another ssd and install Linux on it. If you want to bail just swap back to your hold drive. See about going to 16gb ram while you’re at it too.

  • @afunkysongaday@lemmy.world
    0•5 months ago

    A little niche, but I am really happy with solusos! It’s a small distro, so software availability is the biggest issue imo. But if what you need is available it beats every other distro out there for casual desktop use!

    Imo dual boot can lead to issues if you got both os on one drive. In this configuration Windows tends to mess with the Linux partitions. But I never had any issues with one os per drive.

  • qaz
    0•5 months ago

    I wouldn’t recommend editing videos using a virtual machine, the performance will probably be quite miserable.

  • Atemu
    0•5 months ago

    Distro doesn’t really matter here. Choose any that you like.

  • @BlanK0@lemmy.ml
    0•5 months ago

    I would just use kdenlive personally since the UI is very straightforward. I think almost every distro has kdenlive, and if it isn’t on the package manager of the distro you can install it as a flatpak as well.

    Maybe try distros that have more recent updates, might feel less clunky, like nobara, fedora, openSuse (the semi-rolling release version), garuda and PopOs.

  • lemmyreaderEnglish
    0•5 months ago

    • Trying Linux in VirtualBox for 3D gaming or video editing will give you poor performance. You may get better performance running Linux from a Linux live usb/cd image.

    • For video editors Shotcut is gaining popularity and features. It is also available for Windows so you can try it without a Linux installation : https://shotcut.org/download

    • Not sure if for video editing you should go for a specific Linux flavor, like https://ubuntustudio.org but “distro-hopping” is not a bad thing in my opinion. Try a few Linux distributions and see what you like and dislike, and then decide on your favorite. A tool like Ventoy can make it very easy to have ten or more Linux flavors on your usb pen drive to play with.