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I always love the responses to these videos because it's invariably a bunch of skilled Linux people showing their entire ass trying to justify why the average user would somehow have had a magically better experience and the OP is uniquely bad at computers. Get fucking real. Sit down, shut up, and take notes. It's never going to be the year of the Linux desktop if you ignore the issues encountered by new Linux users.
I am with you, but also kinda not; there is a middle ground that is stupidly easy to find, and Linus hasn't. I understand that the 'average user' coming from Windows is gonna be very clueless but I (maybe unfortunately) have faith that someone determined enough to figure out how to install Linux is going to be determined enough to, like, search for things more than that, you know? I've met a few folks who have no idea what they're doing in a browser, of course, but those people are not going to try to install Linux..
I do agree that Linux nerds should be much kinder and listen. No shame to tech-illiterate folks, pleeeeease. I wish people would have more faith in others' ability to figure shit out, people aren't just mindless apes pressing buttons.
Dude runs a tech youtube channel and acts like he knows everything about computers. But for some reason when he uses Linux we're supposed to treat him like grandma with her first ever laptop? Don't trust this guy on anything he puts videos out about. He's not tech savvy, dude is an actor. Found it really funny he encountered two issues with running PopOS but didn't bother explaining why or how he fixed either of them. If I had to guess, I'd say he called a crew member off camera.