Don’t buy into the bloat meme.

Specificity

Using only non american oss is literally impossible.

What distro? Works fine on mine

Kdenlive has always been good for me, but I prefer shotcut. It seems simpler for the smaller edits I do

If you are interested into dipping your toes into rust land there is a library called Iced that I have used before. I at least like it better tham pyqt

Some people like to talk to each other. Like people who are people?

Level of experience is itself relative

Allow me to introduce you to Wheaton’s Law

I for one welcome our rust overlords

Do they know everything about you minute to minute? Email to email? I can imagine that is data they might want to have. The data you are presently creating. You always have a footprint, but you can always make your feet smaller while you walk. Or some better allusion. Leave me alone.

Tired of Gmail? Switch to Kmail!

“Somehow”

Hannah Montana Linux

See if you can nab someone’s dotfiles

Interesting idea to take “non-programmers (such as artists)” out of their normal professional workflows (e.g. adobe creative) and putting them in yours for the sake of productivity. What hardware are we talking about? Are you running a vm? That won’t work on apple silicon. (Which creative types overwhelmingly use)

Bonus question: You “want to develop a game” and are “considering collaborating with others”? What’s the scale and where are we at with making the game? Because worrying about your team’s workflow sounds a lot like having that $10 million idea and buying a domain name before writing a line of code.

That said, I’ve done this kind of thing before. Pick something. Anything. And write scripts to automate most of it. You will never get a 100% turn key solution, and everything has a tradeoff. Solve enough of the problem and go work on your game.

Could be worse could be luke smith

Are the webapps free or do you have to pay for them too? Could be a good option if collaborating with other people is important.