What’re you all using to edit your videos?

I’m debating reinstating my adobe premier pro for ~$400.

I just tried Davinci resolve free version and it keeps crashing and stuttering. The paid version of $300. For that I’d rather have access to all of Adobe’s tools.

Has anyone found a free or paid alternative to Adobe video editing?

Edit:

I have an Omen gaming laptop with 32 gb ram and a 4090 rtx gpu. Previously, I’ve used Adobe with no issues and even made deepfakes which is intensive gpu and cpu resources. CapCut runs fine in my pc, but using Davinci, just to play a video uses 100% of my ram and causes stuttering and lagging of the video.

I’ve ensured Davinci is using my nvidia gpu.

Edit 2:

After downloading it a second time, I right clicked the thumbnail video in the app and clicked relink proxy media.

There’s no more skipping or hesitating. So currently the issue seemed solved. although I’m concerned this conversion may cause issues down the road I’m rocking with it for the time being. Thank you everyone for the input and suggestions. I’ve begun using CapCut also.