Comment by haunter
2 days ago
An immutable distro, probably Fedora Kinoite https://www.fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/kinoite/
>In windows when a child goes searching the web for a “movie maker for windows” they are going to be in a world of hurt either finding expensive commercial options or super scammy sites promising the world.
It's funny that you use that example because the state of video editors on Windows have never been better from industry standard free options (DaVinci Resolve) to FOSS options (KDEnlive, Openshot, Shotcut, Avidemux etc).
What you describe is a Google / web / browser problem not an OS one
There’s a Linux version of Resolve that works fine as long as you have NVidia and don’t mind transcoding m4a audio tracks to PCM (some codec licensing issues I think)
And transcoding H.264 video to whatever codecs the free version of Resolve supports
Ah yes sorry the video software was a lazy example but I think you get my point. I did see them find confidence in having such a deep library of free software to poke at and around with.
Insert slightly more niche need that a kid might have ;)