yeah, np. I haven’t looked at any of the recent options for video editing software, recently.
The windows Movie Maker that I looked at limits video clips to “1 minute 30 seconds”. You can do still frames of pictures for as long as you like though. 
Ubuntu is great, I’ve worked with it… and due to the fact that I’m on a wireless network that I’ve constructed … I was stopped by PITA when trying to obtain a driver for my netgear wireless adapter… I could not access the storage (and I am in an environment that really doesn’t play friendly with wired situations… I won’t go into more detail than “pets and pests”)
and yes, you are correct in your experience with video editing programs… I happened to see that too 
no, do not spend money on my account. I am perfectly fine with my “shoot from the hip” format, and if you remember the:
is the format I would actually try to provide for @normen.
as for the second point, awesome! 
Yes, that would be invaluable.