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I came from Sony Vegas to kdenlive. I am absolutely thrilled to have broken away from Windows and joined the Linux bandwagon but I'm not going to pretend kdenlive is a better video editor. It's the best I've found and good enough for my use case but I miss Sony's UI. I could say the same about GIMP vs Photoshop.
All that said, it's still totally worth the switch and I have zero regrets. I'd rather relearn some things than bend over for the corporations that seek to exploit us.
For GIMP there is a "Photoshop UI" plugin if you still have lingering muscle memory. Perhaps something similar can be made for kdenlive?
Photopea is a good alternative to Photoshop when you need automatic subject selecting and other powerful features. They have a very similar UI, but it's not FOSS and they want you to see ads or pay to use features repeatedly. Nonetheless, it is the best I have found for my use cases.
If it requires an internet connection just to use, that's a no-go. Thanks for a suggestion though.
It isn't open source, but DaVinci Resolve is available for Linux. With limited features if you don't pay. Might be overkill for what you do, and I understand it can be finicky to get it working (needs nvidia, poor support for AMD, very limited format support unless you get the paied version, ...).
I don't really do video stuff, but I did play around with it a few years ago, and it seemed very comprehensive.
Yeah that was the first one I tried. I was very excited about it too. But it would not run on my hardware.