Microsoft had this shitty idea of "InstantGo" aka "InstantOn" aka "Modern Standby" aka "Connected Standby" (the namings alone give away whose idea it was). They think that people cannot wait the like 1 second when opening a laptop to return from suspend2ram / s3, and they think that laptops should be connected to networks all the time. What for I have no idea, they're not phones after all. So now laptops do not actually sleep anymore, at all. The merely run in a low power profile. The worst is that support for S3 got worse in many bios/uefi implementations, where either it doesn't work properly anymore or it is gone entirely :(
Have you looked at the video editor in Blender? I'm not much into video editing, but Blender as a whole is very solid, supports H.264 and AAC as far as I can see.
Have you looked at the new stuff in Blender 5? I've never used it for video editing, but the release notes claim that they did a bunch of stuff with the sequencer in 5.0. https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-0/#vse
I tried 5 just now and while it looks familiar to a standard video editor it's missing a lot of features Camtasia and other video editors mentioned here have.
It also feels like using a spaceship when all I want to do is walk around the block. I like learning new things but to me, efficiency for the things I do a lot wins in the end. I'm sure I can design anything I could ever imagine in Blender but if I need to do a lot of complicated workflows for really basic things every time, all of that gets thrown out the window.
My goto things in a video editor is cutting, ripple delete, adding text callouts with minor effects, highlighting certain areas, zooming into certain areas and wanting to quickly take my original OBS source and render an mp4. Ideally it would run well on lower end hardware and also support 2x playback while editing (saves a lot of time).
I hope you realize that Linux in this table is split up into many individual options where the others are not, i.e. that Ubuntu, Debian, Arch etc also all count towards Linux?
In January 2024 zed was open sourced, with only mac support. One week later Dzmitry Malyshau showed up with a prototype renderer for Linux. In July 2024 official Linux builds were available mostly thanks to community contributors. The swift Linux support is a tale of community steppung up to open source development, not one of manufacturer provides something. So Windows is certainly not popular with the kind of crowd that gets excited about an editor
Just surprised, as I thought building GUI app on Windows must be easy right, as must be libs/frameworks already available to support that? It's just not.
Just imagine the world was used to subnets and NAT would be the new thing to learn. Everyone would go "NAT breaks all the time" and "portforwarding is weird" and whatnot. IPv6 is not harder, people just confuse "harder" with "not being used to".
NAT is actually useful besides just avoiding address exhaustion. Many IPv6 networks are on NAT anyway, like pretty much every cell carrier, which maybe accounts for most ipv6 traffic.
TMo US gives me a whole routed /64. Why build and staff v6 NAT devices for no reason? At least several years ago several cell carriers were all about v6 to reduce the volume of v4 traffic they carry, because v4 requires expensive addresses, expensive nat boxes, and expensive people to feed and care for the NAT boxes.
Honestly, I don't know why so many carriers do v6 with NAT, cause intuitively they wouldn't. Maybe someone else knows. I know why a home or office would do it, it's easier to reason about there.
I got a private IPv6 only on AT&T cell when I checked a couple of years ago (to be clear, not a public one with inbound-deny). Will check again.
Edit: Ok not sure what to make of this now. On an iPhone rn so it's tricky, the Net Analyzer app says I have 5 2600:s on cell, which should be the public range, but my public IP according to test-ipv6.com is a different 2600: from all the above. Wonder if those 5 are actually the EPC.
The immutable and atomic movement in Linuxland is very exciting. Cloud native distro building with docker/podman in CI pipelines is just insane: Building+testing+deployment with ci/cd can now not only be done with some python package, but a whole distribution. Also Wayland, Pipewire, Flatpak and Btrfs are great stuff. Of course they don't get developed in one release cycle, but in recent years they made large leaps and became default on many distros.
I mean OS updates are necessary, from security updates to support for new hardware. Stuff like init scripts were a suboptimal solution to begin with, it is not like that old stuff was a good solution. Xorg also doesn't fit how modern computers work, and is merely a collection of bandaids that is inherently unable to reach sane security by todays standards. So its not like progress is entirely superficial. And also with Flatpak there has emerged a way of shipping stuff such that used libraries can be shared but do not have to be, and every app can move at its own pace without conflicting with other apps or the OS. So at least in Linux land, especially in the last couple years, there has been great advances from a technical point of view. And those tackle also the problems arising when a huge number of indipendent parts come together, which were naturally very pronounced for Linux in the past.
