Newcomer: how to evaluate Premier Pro?

I discovered a very nice video editor with a very low price, the Wondershare Filmora. It is much easier to use than OpenShot and doesn't have its bugs. It seems robust, with surprisingly useful features. Its basic functions, such as zooming, cutting, fading, and dissolving, are optimized nicely, and duration or other properties are easy to change. Like most software products, its support requires persistence to get help or to get bugs fixed. Most importantly, it will work almost up to speed even on ordinary home laptops, and makes use of the GPU.

the lightest you'll find is probably blender, or windows movie maker, or similar. I can run both on a raspberry pi or virtual machine. I would give davinci resolve a go- it's not quite lightweight, but it does use what it has quite efficiently. I hear filmora is quite light, too.

adobe products used to be lightweight, but then they stopped developing them, and started making addons, and calling them updates. for example, After Effects has over 470 addons now, but still can't use a GPU.