Adding one datapoint here: I made several projects with Shotcut and am glad it exists, but I had to learn to expect a crash and work defensively; That's how often it happened. The most usual crash was while moving clips around, the application died and the window closed, work lost.

I recently used Shotcut and it did crash a few times, but both times it still had my changes after reopening.

Not being used to the concepts of video editing, I found it easy to find a workflow that worked for me (cutting out mistakes and stitching remaining ends).

have you tested kdenlive recently? it used to get a lot of flack back when but over the last year it has improved and lots and lots of bug fixes

Resolve definitely can crash on you too.

I rarely edit videos, so my needs are very basic.

I tested a few such as openshot, flowblade, ... about 10 months ago.

flowblade has the best UI IMHO (more streamlined), but it was annoyingly restrictive for quick edits such as opening a clip, apply just a trim and maybe add 1 filter (usually crop).

It also wasn't very stable.

I ended up with shotcut for most of my needs. It's very flexible and has a good balance in ui/features: intuitive enough that I had to spend zero time learning it, yet has more than what I will ever need. Although it's not as smooth performance-wise as flowblade. It never crashed on me yet.

I didn't like the UI of openshot, but this is a subjective thing. Felt space-wasting and oversimplified, which might be a plus to some. It also did crash a lot for me.

I use avidemux a lot for cuts. It's the fastest editor for this by FAR. UI is minimal. I would say underrated, although it's a pretty well-known tool, just in a different class (not a NLE).

I was a big fan of "cinelerra" some years ago. It's blazingly fast, but very restrictive in the formats it accepts, which is why I stopped using it. I mostly cut random videos coming from random cameras/phones/etc, so I value free-form over standardized workflows.

Don't forget Blender. For some more complex stuff, I successfully used blender's NLE to track/mask clips. Worked perfectly, absolutely stable even for complex videos, although it needed slight more RTFM than the other options and noticeably heaver in terms of system requirements.

I love Resolve, but I've rarely been so miserable as when I tried to get it working under Linux. I'm a real seasoned Linux Sys Admin, but I spent 10-ish hours trying to get it installed 3-4 years ago and just totally failed.

I ended up using Windows and had a just barely usable system. I had a lot of problems with poor scrubbing performance and renders that sometimes had black frames randomly in them that I fixed by converting everything to prores (and blowing up into huge files).

My long term fix was to get a mac, where it runs flawlessly with basically no effort. It's a great tool, but there are some pitfalls.

I run Resolve (Studio) on Linux/Mac/Windows and, you are right, getting it to work on used to be a pain in anything but a set version of Centos. However, this project:

https://github.com/fat-tire/resolve

.. allows one to execute Resolve in a container (Docker AND Podman)... and now Linux is my go-to env for running Resolve. Just being able to run N+1 versions of Resolve on the same workstation is a lifesaver.