Comments by "Jeremy Barlow" (@jeremybarlow2291) on "Is Linus Trolling The Linux Community?" video.

You do not need to be a bit tech savvy for the average user. My cousin's mom who was in her 60s was a very casual user who 99% of the time was just using her desktop for the web browser. She had a computer that was still running Windows XP in 2013. It was always having problems. We installed Linux Mint and all the tech support issues for her went away. I showed her how to do updates and told her to run that at least once a week. She died two years ago, but she used that computer daily for 6 years without issue. The typical non-power user has zero issues using Linux.
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@pixelcat5281 99% of cards and peripherals work out of the box with Linux with zero need to obtain any drivers. nVidia stands out because of their refusal to open source drivers which would mean the Linux community would gladly help them make better drivers for their stuff. it's actually a piss poor corporate management problem. AMD just works out of box with zero headaches 99.9995% of the time. How bizarre? The same goes for a ton of peripherals. Are there some stand out problems with printers? Yes, but they are much rarer as noted by the super easy experience Linus and Luke had.
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What is more, while the more experienced you become as a Linux user and the more you learn about your system, the easier it becomes to use the command line, in most modern Linux desktop distributions, including Manjaro, the package manager is typically connected to a GUI based software manager that allows you to easily search for a program in a text box and install with the click of a button. Yes, when you know Linux well and you know the precise name of the application you want a command line install is fast and wiz bang simple, but in those instances where you don't know the quirks of the command line naming conventions for the application, the GUI takes almost no time too. This is actually a case of knowing too much and not enough about Linux at the same time. If Linus had simply used the GUI, no problem with that pacman install because he wouldn't have misnamed it apt. Why? We have a GUI for that and if works well. People complain you have to learn the command line to use Linux for the desktop, but 99% of the time that is not true. You need to learn to use the command line for tweaks and customization, of for edge case scenarios such as having unusual specialized hardware.
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You are right he is complaining about the fact that he has a highly specialized unsupported piece of hardware, yet someone within the Linux community created for free software drivers to support that specialized piece of unsupported equipment having bad documentation on GitHub, rather than saying I know this is a documentation issue with the developers instructions and being thankful that a person volunteered their time and energy to make his quirky equipment work. Yes, Linux occasionally takes extra effort, but again that extra effort comes almost exclusively during edge case scenarios. I mean for me my edge case scenarios have involved attempts at installing Davinci Resolve only to find out my Core i7 is a couple of generations too old to be supported, and installing a screenwriting software that hasn't been updated since 2014, so it requires dependencies that are nearly impossible to find now unless you get a flatpak that a random user created for this old software that continues to work perfectly well and which there is really no reason to update. Those have been the biggest quirks other than preferring the gnome desktop over cinnamon on Linux Mint & even installing that DE was not a huge challenge with various tutorials on the subject readily available.
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@Bastian-Silva-Gutierrez My point is actually, if Linux came installed on a laptop or desktop for most users, it's really easy to use. A welcome screen that explained how to run updates would be about the only guidance the average user would need in my experience.
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@GeeeAus Yet I have had plenty of things that didn't "just work" on Windows or Mac. All operating systems have the occasional WTF just happened moment.
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@GeeeAus I am waiting for the distro that decides everything is an app image with dependencies installed or everything is a flatpak with dependencies installed. Oh wait they do that. Developers more and more if they are not yet in a repo are doing so as well, so that issue is being resolved.
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