Novasty

As a fairly consistent *nix user myself since around 2013, I feel obliged to put my two cents on the table.
 
For me, it wasn't about "trying something new," or, "I can finally become the level 100 wizard!" Or, whatever were the popular memes about computer nerds back in the early 2000's...It came down to price.
 
When I had gotten my first Laptop (A Gateway NE series), it was Windows 7. And I had been accustomed to windows since my childhood, using it as far back as 98. But then I finally had the gift of building my own PC and saw relative prices on Windows licenses. I wasn't going to pay $80+ dollars for a Windows copy, and I never knew of key sites for OEM copies, so I went with something I had heard of once or twice before: Linux.
 
To say the transition for a casual Windows user to just up and start using Ubuntu 14.10 would be like saying, "I put my lemon meringue pie in the oven too long, but it came out with pretty patterns in the burnt spots." I ended up reformatting it like four times in the course of a month because I had messed some configuration setting up (Once after because of a bug in old Unity Desktop Environment when I was messing around with a KVM switch I had 'fixed').
 
Granted, I was a pretty high-level user even when I started using Linux, so I wasn't afraid to get knee-deep into the binary. But as a first-time user, it was surprisingly easy to install.
 
I have been using Linux on just about every device since then because Linux has become my go-to OS, and since it basically runs on anything and everything, I kinda like it. I've dabbled in Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Manjaro, OpenSUSE and Feren OS, and Manjaro has become my primary Linux Distribution since I like full control over my computer.
 
Back in 2014, I had just learned how to operate the Terminal environment effectively, and I look back on that day and chuckle. This won't be every user's experience. I know that. But instead I want to clarify a few things I noted while reading this forum thread.
 
Twilight, you seem to be running off-character. Your structural bias has left you open to scrutiny. For that, I must scrutinize you as well as those posing the arguments.
 
 
That's where you're sort-of right. Sort-of. LTT (Linus Media Group) has a central focus for gamers because that is the market majority for people purchasing high-end equipment like graphics cards and CPUs that are either borderline enterprise equipment or designed for multi-user workloads.
 
Linus has, and likely always will be, focused on the technology as a standpoint for every user. Every enthusiast. He and his employees often try to do or find crazy neat technology that often meets different criteria per video/topic. Notice only recently they've been focusing on more Server-based videos? Partially, it's because now they can afford to make these awesome servers, but it's also because that's the popular topic they want to cover.
 
Notice how they use Linux for a number of these applications. Notice how they only started talking about Linux months after they first talked about the server configurations. Linux wasn't profitable as a topic at the time, so it was put on the backburner for the time being.
 
Then Anthony came in the picture and everything changed.
 
Also, every Distro has a same-but-different approach to high-demand applications, such as those from Steam (Proton), Blender, and GIMP/Kirita, for examples. Some have more efficient system packages, others, not so much. Fedora, in my experience, was the smoothest experience regarding desktop graphics as opposed to Debian and Debian-based distributions; but this is a single-user case, and there are too many variables to properly diagnose.
 
 
This is one of the few times I might actually agree with you Twilight, but the truth is that Linux is an in-depth platform. There are a few thousand ways to oversimplify certain mechanics, but youtube channels like Switched to Linux, for example, often outline these methods already.
 
As a friend of mine once told me, "It's too easy to talk about something you enjoy with a passion. It's hard to talk about it in a way everyone will understand it." To oversimplify would insinuate either lack of information, or misinformation. This is why most Linux professionals, or even Windows and MacOS professionals will talk gibberish sometimes when to them it's a fairly standard knowledge. They say teaching is an art. I agree.
 
 
Check-and-mark. Exceptions occur, but Privacy is a touch easier in Linux than Windows since the Telemetry is often agressive on Windows 10. You can have a million reasons why or how some things can be disabled or removed, but the truth is that to an average user, they're downright impossible and unfeasible to modify. This is how scammers are able to make bank on unaware consumers, because many of the tools that are often considered Administrative are overlooked by the common user, yet that same section would have every toggle-switch to your OS in a perfect world.
 
Exception: Windows is not easy, nor is it hard. Windows Visa/7, running Aero, was easy as all heck to use. XP and beyond were intuitive if cluttered. They screwed up in Windows 8 with Metro, which confused many consumers. They blended Aero with Metro in Windows 10 and I feel obligated to say they did a pretty "meh" job making it user-friendly. Granted, veteran Windows users can adapt (Hi Grandma!) but to those forced to make a radical change (i.e. XP to Windows 10, in an extreme case) will be taken aback, especially with the settings panel.
 
Modernism does not mean radical change to fit whatever HTML-based stylizing is popular on the net. Linux, on the other hand, isn't too much better with the multible Desktop Environments, but there's a level of adapability, customization and choice that the end-user has to make it better to move around.
 
 
Specific-use cases, like mine. When you're running on a low income but can't shill out for a Windows license, Linux becomes a very intriguing offer. Many older computers can also be given new life with lightweight Linux distros, reducing E-Waste. Aspiring developers might find more use in some of the advantages Linux has over Windows regarding certain tasks. The list is situational but pertinent.
 
 
Admins can do this. Sysadmins are familiar with this. The general user will parse through how-to guides and either screw something up in the registry or balk at the complexity of it and sigh in defeat. You aren't even guaranteed that it was up-to-date information and that the computer won't just update itself anyhow.
 
 
Yes and no. Yes, it is easier now, but it still is very difficult to someone just learning about the system and how their computer works. Easier should always be in italics when discussing storage or drive management. It's never easy, just complicated. Atop that, UEFI configurations with Windows 10 make it difficult to set up a second OS on the same computer. Stop right there ninja hands, 'cause there's nothing that will convince me otherwise.
 
 
I dislike this analogy, yet I can't help but wince at the effectiveness. When I say something should be gotten used to it's through experience. The way you're inferring Twilight's statement tells me that the average user would see it as torturous and unequal ground, or that's how I read it. Sure, Linux is difficult for those who swap cold-turkey, but there aren't to many limitations beyond some familiar programs, which is why the earlier topic of Dual-booting, though complex, might be appealing to users with specific requirements.
 
Linux isn't meant for everyone, and I accept that. Just don't have to twist the knife, is all.
 
 
Arguable.
I've only had hands-on interaction with MacOS for a cumulative total of 4 hours, and everything felt a little foreign, even after switching to Linux and using many different Desktop Environments.
 
The idiom goes: "If you grow up with it, you learn it as gospel. If not, there's complication and brick-walls."
 
 
This is one of the few points I can sadly resign a position of argument in. I've understood Google always had a focus on web development, and their office suite (all online!) helps solidify this foundation. Of course I'm not mentioning Youtube, Hangouts, the Search Engine, etc. because when I think of Google, those are the first things I think of.
 
The world is focused on the Cloud, with their heads in the clouds. There is no arguing that. The only exception to any such Webapp argument would be ChromeOS, a product of Google. Arguably, the Pixel series too, but they're Android-based, not Linux.
 
 
Meh, your opinion friend. While filesystems may be confusing, there are more than enough documentation sources online that can help you find what you need to find, in a short variety of ways to do it.
 
I know what's coming, "But you shouldn't need to go look online for tutorials and how-to guides to find your stuff!" I'm assuming you've deleted System32 at least once in your life if you believe such things are possible. Nobody can remember everything about their computer, and often I have a text file on hand in my Documents folder for obscure directories, files, and programs that are often useful, that I don't use much.
 
But, hey, your opinion. Nothing is obscure unless it has to be.
 
 
As a Linux user, once-Windows user, I concur with this statement. Unless you're still running XP, stick with what you have and don't fret about it. Or, if you are curious, load up a Virtual Machine and run a distro in Live mode. It doesn't hurt anything, and most hardware now can support an action like this (default settings often are fine).
 
 
You are disillusioned, the lot of you. I'm sorry, that was mean. Let me phrase this in an easy method:
 
Linux runs a server. The Server in turn runs a web service -- such as Apache -- that your PC, the one you are interacting with, connects to. Apache loads up the service details and the website HTML, and the HTML follows suit by grabbing any CSS code it needed to load with it. They are sent out of Port 80 to the recipient (Some servers have different forward ports), and then the recipient has that webpage on their browser. Explained? I hope so.
 
It doesn't matter about market share, the fact is that the number is slowly growing, and may have a spike...soon or never. Regardless, there are reasons to switch to Linux, and I won't discount anyone wanting to stick to what they prefer, but at the very least you should understand MacOS is just a variant from *nix. Mic drop.
 
And Twilight...Not everyone use Linux, nor do they interact with it; they use a service running on a Linux machine. While I do not disagree users should know more about their machine, they will likely be interfacing with Windows. That is just how Microsoft has played their marketing and distribution channels.
 
 
It is getting easier. Flatpak and Snap, for example, are package managers that operate on containers; they don't need dependencies unless explicitly stated, since they come pre-packaged with whatever they need. On top of that, packages can easily be installed using the software center included with most distributions.
 
There are also AppImages, which are prepackaged binaries that often run by themselves (See Kirita and BalenaEtcher, to name a few I use). It's slow growth, but these methods are making it easier to package and distribute programs and applications.
 
Now the commands...In the Terminal...I recommend installing Oh-My-Zsh if you're going that route.
 
 
We don't care about what you do not care about. It's only because I make this statement that a double-negative occurs in a derogatory statement. You can have your opinions. I/We can respect those opinions.
 
Nobody should cater to one's needs unless of such circumstances that require such actions. This thread was made with the best of intentions, but instead you assume it's a, "I want this to happen and you're gonna do it now!" post. Granted, Linux could have been conveyed better as a topic for a video, but I'm agreeing with the majority here; Not many YouTubers -- Popular or not -- will go as far as to test everything that is Linux on every piece of hardware they encounter. This is just basic knowledge: "if it doesn't turn a profit that my time is to be spent doing all this work, is it worth my time?"
 
That's where the people who have too much time on their hands post results on hardware forms, like this one on Debian, which contains instructions and some in-depth information on how to get Linux (in this case, Debian) running in the best way possible.
 
Any questions?

Why don't they just do that to begin with and not give half-assed data points that don't mean anything?
 
If Linux benchmarks have to be provided, then it better be provided properly, or people will just make another piece of criticism of their benchmarking workflow which will again, just add to the overall workload. It doesn't financially make sense.

So what I will say will likely have been already said. I am also quite bad at forming my ideas cohesively, so sorry about that. I am looking at this entirely from a business perspective.
 
Based on current available information, the investment into Linux is not all entirely worth it. LTT will likely have to create a completely separate channel in order to present Linux information which will likely only get a fraction of the subs and views due to Linux information not easily being presentable in an entertaining fashion. This goes back to looking at how LTT puts out and QC's their videos, a ton of unnecessary workload for a small ROI.
 
LTT has once commented on the primary reason for their new Shortcircuit channel as a place to put videos that don't meet the "LTT" gold standard. Another channel would have to be created entirely for the more Linux heavy information as a lot of it is dry. Why bother with that when you could literally just direct the viewers to other more effective channels for this sort of information.

Complaining about GN on an LTT forum, that will totally work.

Canceled my credit card today, new one in a couple of weeks...

At the bottom of the page, look at "THEME" and select night.

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At the bottom of the page, look at "THEME" and select night.

At the bottom of the page, look at "THEME" and select night.

@Misanthrope
 
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@Misanthrope
 
https://churchoflogan.github.io/

pls no.

pls no.

pls no.

pls no.

At the bottom of the page, look at "THEME" and select night.

At the bottom of the page, look at "THEME" and select night.

If you go in disk management, there would of been an option to expand the disk space of the selected partition. I do this all the time, after cloning from SSD to HDD for whatever reason, I would just go into the Windows disk management and expand to the partition to use up whatever left over space isn't used.

This maybe a bit of a weird thing of me to ask, but try recreating your issue with Google drive disabled.
Here is why I think Google drive may be an issue http://i.imgur.com/uxoj0rU.png

The new dump now points to this driver. http://kb.eset.com/esetkb/index?page=content&id=SOLN2616

Vuze is quite nice, but be aware that thing is basically adware if you just blindly install the thing. Preferably I like qbittorrent better, but I'm too fond of using Vuze.