My question is simple.
What's better for video editing or what are the pros and cons of it, of doing it in Windows or Linux? Also is there an Adobe Premiere alternative for Linux?

I'm asking this because a guy uses his computer mainly for that. He needs to make avi files and mpeg files from VHS etc...
He also has a Canopus DVStorm2 video card.

Assuming he can get the video card support (I don't know what that is) it's fine in linux. No, I haven't come upon something as powerful as Premiere, but there are options. I use kino to edit my video, dvgrab to capture it, and mencoder to compress it. All these tools are either very well documented or straight forward in their use. There are also things like http://www.mainconcept.com/de/mainactor.shtml
Which is supposedly an excellent commercial app. cinerella is claimed to be very high end and might challenge Premiere. FilmGimp is used to create some Hollywood movies recently, so one might think that to be a good piece of software as well.

So what's better? Well, depends on who you are asking, and what they do with their video. If this "guy" is having no problem in win, no crashes, and can process the video rather quickly, then I wouldn't bother changing. However, I personally took 6 hours off my editing time by switching to Linux to do it. To capture and compress my video (a 30 min clip) alone took me 8 hours in win. Now in linux it takes 35 minutes, 30 for the capture, 5 for compression. From there it's kino that takes me the longest time, and that's not kino's fault but my lack of editing skills

So, in the end, I guess I'd say have him give em both a try, see if he likes the tools available in linux, and if they make him any faster. At least then he can make an educated decision on which to use

Cool

Thanks, I learnt something again :-)

You're Welcome, if your friends decides to give Linux a go, let us know what app he uses, and how he likes it versus Premiere.

Cool

Thanks, I learned something here as well. I dont know if its appropriate or not, but may I ask what hardware I would need to upload film from a regular cam corder? Or even from vhs? thanks.