There are a whole bunch of reasons why I'm not looking at the Windows video editors - but the simplest ones are:

* Linux is my primary desktop environment (and has been since the late 90s). I can use Windows, and am perfectly comfortable doing so, but switching to it means dropping out of what I'm currently doing and rebooting, which is a pain I'd rather avoid.
* Video is not my life. I only occasionally want to do anything with video - usually as a project with my daughter. Kdenlive works pretty well (apart from the crashes) but the infrequency of my usage makes it very hard to justify spending money on a commercial solution - even without adding the annoyance of switching to Windows to actually use it.

To add to that, I have in fact tried demos of some of the more popular entry level Windows based video editors, and none of them in the ~$100 range were really all that great. Maybe the $500+ range has some truly brilliant software, but again, I'll never know because it's not worth it to me. (And I do spend money when I'm going to get value from it, but Music is my real hobby, so Sonar Producer and various Softsynths are where my commercial software dollars go)

I hadn't seen Lightworks before. Will try it out.

* No waveform view for audio tracks (how are you supposed to sync audio and video?)
* No per-clip markers, only global markers. (How are you supposed to find points of interest and sync points in clips before dropping them on the timeline?)

In addition, a useful feature Kdenlive has - that I don't know if Openshot has - is the ability to use unrendered Kdenlive projects as clips. Which means you can create extremely complicated projects, and then only have to do one final rendering at the end. That way you can work on individual scenes separately, then combine them in a master project.

It's pretty much the best open source video editor out there. It has the right mix of ease of use and functionality - they just need to work on the flakiness. Every now and then when I have need to do video editing, I've looked at the alternatives, and Kdenlive - crashes and all - is the only thing that ever actually does the job.

The commercial Windows based editors may well work a lot better, but I'll never know, because I'll never use any of them.

If his argument was that ffmpeg's entire philosophy and way of working wasn't what he wanted then your response would be valid. But no, his entire reason for utterly discounting it was one - and only one - bug. Maybe he had more reasons, but the only one he felt worthy of sharing was that one bug.

No, the norm when forking is to do so because you don't get along with the maintainers...

Linux has been on the desktop for as long as there's been an X server. Is it on everyone's desktop? No. Does that matter? No

So basically you're saying that in order to be portable, you don't use non portable features? That's a revelation...

There's very few non portable desktop features anyway - most stuff gets picked up by all of the environments one way or another. I can't even think of any desktop specific feature that would make an application unusable in another environment...

That's right, they should all use sensible names like "Skype", "Yahoo" and "Google", otherwise they'll never catch on.

I'm sure it'll be fine....as long as the front doesn't fall off...

Just remember that the same person that wants to build this, also declared that Greenpeace was a CIA plot to destroy Australia's mining sector...

He's not quibbling over a temperature, he's pointing out a blatant lie. Musk doesn't make any claim in his blog that the temperature had any real effect - the original writer made that claim, and made a big deal about it despite it being a lie.

So you're advocating for less representation, not more?

Or do you think you can go all the way and switch to a direct democracy? Which, logistics aside, would turn every voting age citizen into a politician....