What would happen if we evaluate platforms based on their video editors? Would you rather use KDE and Kdenlive or Gnome and Pitivi?
But both run on either desktop environment. This is a rather silly question.
Somewhere in the distance, a Gnome dev screams
why not just evaluate the apps themselves
Some video editors like Shotcut, Flowblade or Openshot are not affiliated with any particular platform, so you cannot evaluate them based on platforms. But Kdenlive and Pitivi are associated to specific Desktop environments and technologies. I am asking us to evaluate platforms based on their software. Lets evaluate KDE and Gnome based on what they have to offer?
But you can get both editors on either de? It’s not even like nautalus vs dolphin where you compare defaults since neither come preinstalled.
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Yeah, people mix and match applications all the time, and they don’t look too out of place to begin with these days.
I’ve personally used kdenlive on Mac OS, and it seemed to work fine for what I needed to do (even though I didn’t really know what I was doing). Not sure if Pitivi is available on homebrew.
I don’t think it’s on Homebrew, but it is available on Nix. Nix has a much bigger repository comparable to the AUR and you can use it as a normal package manager.
Ooh, I need to look into that. Work won’t let me use Linux so I’m using the Mac for work stuff. I try to use the same applications I use on my personal Linux machines anyway.
Nix is a big rabbit hole. You can use it as a normal package manager, but there’s a lot more.
You can also use nix-shell to temporarily install packages, it drops you into a shell with your package and that package is gone when you exit the shell. You can also declare a shell using a shell.nix file with environment variables and packages you want (including specific versions) and enter that shell by running nix-shell.
You can also declare your full user environment using nix home manager. Using a home.nix file you can list packages you need and configure everything. That also makes it easy to backup your user environment by just copying the home.nix file.
Applications are platform agnostic. I run Kdenlive on Gnome and it works flawlessly.
Next on the list of pointlessly reductive comparisons: let’s judge which is the best desktop environment solely on which has the superior clock app.
You jest, but I would love to read about that.
At least it is part of the desktop and not just an application using the same toolkit.
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OpenShot? Shotcut? Flowblade? Cinelerra?
Which desktop environment has the best video editor? KDE or Gnome?
You’re asking the wrong question. Maybe you are new to all this Linux stuff, but you can run KDE software under GNOME and vice versa, this is extremely common. Pick which ever DE you like the most by itself, and independently pick the editing software you like the most.
Bro desktop environments don’t have video editors. That’s why they’re desktop environments. KDE makes a video editor called kdenlive. They also make a desktop environment calls Plasma. These two things have nothing to do with each other.
I would not say “nothing to do with each other”. That said, it is not accurate to imply that the DE limits your choice of advices applications.
So what you are really asking is what platform developers provide the best applications (video editors edition)?
My biased answer here is KDE. But I haven’t used video editors in years, so it’s also an outdated opinion.
I feel like everybody got it so serious. I got it as a which one would you choose.
Last time I had to edit something I used olive. Didn’t got in my way to get work done. So, I liked it. Olive uses QT instead if GTK. But I use gnome as my DE for some years. I try something else time to time but always get back to gnome.
So between these two, that there are many years I don’t try. Just by the picture. I would choose piviti. Qt things use to have way more preferences visibe at once, qt apps looks more advanced tools. Some times this may add noise to get to the few important things/ui elements buttons to get the work done. But my experience with Olive and Mixx that are both QT were really good. Maybe I should try KDE again.
The video editing platform I would like to get my hands on is the early 80s “EditDroid”. But… only because there’s a Sun-1 embedded in it.
