I hadn't heard that about Audacity, I hope my 6 year old install on my crappy laptop keeps working, because I have no interest in learning anything else at this point.

Every issue you have with OpenShot, I've had with KDEnlive. I guess we all just find what works easiest with our hardware.

I enjoyed your post. I've been running 100% open-source software for nearly 20 years now, mostly under some form or other of Ubuntu distro. I won't even look at people's Windows machines anymore!