Aelis
What do you mean «too addicting» ? xD
I’m just curious, that’s the most unusual and unexpected reason to stop using Linux I ever read.
Tbh I can understand, I have nothing agaisnt it. I barely just arrived and I already like it here, I chose Beehaw because of all the other instances I found it seemed like a safe space, I thought that if I couldn’t find what I wanted here, all I had to do was to follow stuff from other instances all the while I enjoy beeing in this one.
So in this situation my only concern is about what I could do to have a seemless experience.
On smartphone it doesn’t feel too painfull to resolve, I could just add an other account from another instance to Jerboa, on pc tho I don’t really know what I could do.
I’d really like to have most of everything I follow visible in one place (at least as much as possible), and I don’t really know what I could do to achieve that on pc if some instances defederate others (tbh that’s the only issue I have with defederating, on one hand it’s a cool and reassuring tool to escape bad actors, on another it complicate stuff a bit) .
I knew about the fediverse for a long time but only made the jump recently, I thought it’d be easier to congregate everything you follow from various instances into one place, it feel like the concept is yet not completly fleched out. Yet again I am new so maybe I just don’t completly understand how things work.
Yeah, having different tabs is actually what I’d like to avoid (if I can), to be clear I am not complaining or anything, it’s not the end of the world if I can’t do otherwise, it’s just that since I am new and I barely know all I can possibly do here, I am just wondering how I can make browsing lemmy as convenient as possible. That said, thanks for the answer :)
I swear, I live in France and I only discovered this on lemmy, this is insane…
Shotcut is great if you never dived into video editing before, simply because it’s great for quick and simple video editing, it’s also fairly intuitive. But it can fall flat when you have specific (or more advanced) needs, like adding subtitles or specific effects, it’s doable, features are not fully the problem here…just that it can be a needless pain to use in such instances.
Kdenlive on the other hand is more complete but less intuitive, yet if you want something a bit more advanced it will do the job more than nicely.
So it widely depends on your needs and how far you want to delve into video editing.
I’d say if you wanna go crazy go for Kdenlive, if you want something simple go for Shotcut. If you want to start simple and go crazy later go for both.
They are both more than decent editing softwares, but Kdenlive is surely the best of the two, if not one of the best out there.
I’d add it’s usefull to know that in case of poor performance you can still lower the preview resolution or use something called proxies, to continue editing, not always ideal but it does the job. Performance also depends on your hardware, even without hardware acceleration, so the more horse power the crazier you can go with effects. Kdenlive also greatly improved (in my experience at least) regarding performances, even though hardware acceleration would still be a must.
I really don’t get why anyone would be annoyed about this specifically when recurring topics and posts are just pretty common… about litterally anything. I find it even more weird since it’s about people ditching windows (I mean how many topics and posts hating on windows, praising Linux, suggesting Linux, and whatever else…just lots and lots, and somehow people are fine with that, so why would it be any different here ?)
Beside, people just want to share things, regardless if others did exactly the same an hour or a decade ago. Why care when it’s just so easy to move on to something you’d be more interested in ?
One thing I do find tiresome more than anything within the Linux community though is talks about noobs like they are some cringe childs being boring and acting childishly…everyone have been noobs seriously, even you mentioned toxicity and the lack of openness/friendliness towards noobs if we ostracized them…yet you are suggesting it anyway. I get noobs aren’t always fun but come on ! And about newcommer posts…noobs will seek help wherever they can seek it, having another place to help them is not going to change that, so we might just as well help them and redirect them to helping sites anyway.
Nah it’s not what I meant, I think I just wasn’t clear (I am no native speaker, might be that or it just came out wrong) I didn’t mean to say you yourself have some ill will toward newcomers, you even spoke about your bad experience as one and how you don’t want this to happend to others. I was generalising about the ambiant toxicity you can sometimes find on most platforms and that’s what tires me more than simply noobs enjoying their discoveries or seeking a helping hand, sometimes even people with good intent get condescending for no reason and I find it dumb, but I wasn’t aiming at you at all. May be you took it this way because I abruptly came back to you in almost the same sentence.
I only meant that I get the impression people sometimes (on diverse sites, not just lemmy) get burned over noobs, and start noticing them more often than they sould, starting to wish for more peace, or more intersting stuff on their feeds and what not. Wich, as understandable as it may be, is not very welcoming (and not too hard to overcome). Or may be it’s just that sometimes people have weird takes about newcomers and I just mix it all up and get the wrong overall impression, cannot say.
But going back to you, you are mentionning “flood of those two types of posts, and other content just drowns in them” and that’s what I find odd (if you are talking about only Linux@lemmy.ml specifically), because yeah there are a good number of them…but not so many (at least to me) that you can’t just ignore them without paying no mind to it. And again, may be it just doesn’t show up us much on my end for some strange reason, but I checked to be sure, and still can’t find that much to agree. Even the “the lack of organisation” is a strange way to put it since there are broad topics to have on just Linux and posts usually talk about diverse stuff (security, softwares, news, distros, experiences, unixporn…) besides the fact some recurring stuff always come back since people have their favourites topics (favourite distros, dick contest between this and that, “what do you prefer”, and on and on).
And in the end, some noobs will just end up talking or asking about stuff everywhere they can, down to the worst places up to the best, only because they simply will go to places they find or know. And I don’t think isolating them, or making another space for them will ever change that, and it might just send the wrong message. To me, unless there is a truly dire need for another noob space to give them better help (wich I really can’t assess here), I think the best way to deal with it and stay welcoming is by just paying no mind when you don’t feel like it and just go to them when you want to. Not implying that’s your case but, I know some people don’t know when to let go, but we all can’t be patient or interested in things all the time, may be that’s why I think people get burned sometimes. Reminds me that joke about the best way to get help on linux : you simply say «Linux is so bad I can’t do this» anywhere and Linux people won’t let it slide and give you the best help right away.
Linux gets awesome when you have at least a the bare simplest minimum of idea what your computer is doing, but when you see it as some kind of magic box it won’t protect you against yourself. I experienced this myself with a friend who wanted to try Linux, giving them as much help as I could, explaining everything down to even make them regular tutorials if they forgot anything…and nope, to my suprise they just never understood their pc even back when it was windows…and even with all my help, it just flew over their head. While doing some overdue maintenance on their machine I just realized they always ended up seriously harming their pc with bad habbits, regardless of the OS, Windows just took it better because of how dumbed down it is for tech iliterate people.
So yeah I completly get it xD