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Do you still watch YouTube? Who do you follow?
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I'm going to bet your 80 year old gran isn't playing AAA games and streaming on her Linux PC.
No she's not, but neither are all the other average users. The average user does almost everything in a browser these days. I worked for an ISP as an installer for 8 years... I've been in ~10, 000 homes. Maybe 1 in 30 people use their computer for serious gaming. Most gamers are console gamers.
But with that said, gaming on Linux has come a long way in the last couple years. Most games that don't work are the ones with anti-cheat that install what is essentially a rootkit on your computer. Streaming has never been a problem with OBS.
I think you're missing the point I'm getting at. The Linux challenge was specifically a gaming challenge, or at least gaming was a significant part of the challenge and while yes, gaming has indeed come a long way in recent years (and the stream deck is helping drive that further), it still has as long way to go.
You need to separate the "what's doable" fun "what works out of the box", it's the latter that can fall down for most people and the second you have to open as terminal, you've lost the audience that we're talking about.
I didn't get into to the specifics of what was wrong with that video, but there was a lot wrong with it and some of it was framing. When a video annoys me every couple minutes because it's inaccurate then I'm obviously going to be put off by it. And that was the case for that video.