I've been using it for nearly a year now. It's not perfect and has given me a little grief from time to time. But it gets the job done
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Proxy clips are new? My poor VM in Qubes couldn't do video editing without them
Does not not constantly crash anymore? That's the only feature I want. I don't do a lot of video editing but for the every-now-and-then scenario I have it always crashes at least once...
They wanted people switching over from big name software to feel right at home
I was seeing a lot of crashes two or three years ago, but none in the past year or so.
The Flatpak version is solid so far
I do a fair amount of video editing with it, and I haven't had it crash once, in Windows or Linux, in years now.
Yes! I had the exact same thought after I got my Steam Deck and started using Arch again about a year ago. I remember it being clunky and awful, but now it's so smooth and simple.
Granted I don't do anything crazy, I pretty much just load a clip, SHIFT+R at a few time stamps, and render a new file. Maybe add a dissolve or fade. There wasn't really much that could even do this simple stuff well before KDEnlive beefed up, at least not that I used.
Sadly kdenlive is still extremely buggy and slow for me.
Even when using proxy clips which are an absolute necessity to get decent performance I still can't edit at decent performance. This is on a ryzen 2600 and arc a380 which has no problems with other tools even when editing 4k timelines so long as I use low impact codecs on the timeline.
The insane amount of crashes it has makes it really hard to use, I can get by using autosave but its more tedious then it is worth. I keep coming back and trying kdenlive, but I can just never use it. I hope it does good eventually, but for the forseeable future I dont see that happening.