I have been using Linux Mint for the past month and I really like it. Several years ago I was using Ubuntu for a while but it never ran as well as I wanted. These days it seems Ubuntu has fallen off a lot.
Now I almost always using Linux Mint except when I want to edit some photos to put in a collage because there is a good program that does everything I want on Windows. Otherwise, Linux Mint is super stable. I tried Manjaro with the liveCD but it wasn't as clean as Mint. The only problem is that downloading from the Software Manager means downloading older versions of software. The software in the repositories usually isn't cutting edge.
Windows boots up so damn slow and I love the look and feel of Mint. The video editor Kdenlive gets the job done, but it's still a bit buggy.
Arch has the latest code, and gets updated daily. The learning curve is a bit steep though.
For video editing, I use shotcut. Pretty basic, but it renders way faster than everything else I have tried.
Kdenlive is also not too bad, have to use the latest version though, older versions are unusably buggy.
If you have decent hardware, its quite possible to run windows inside virtualbox, and there is wine, which I use to run a few windows apps such as foobar2000.