I just can't understand people complaining about Windows games on Linux not working properly. That should be the expectation, and we all should be glad that we have Proton and Lutris. You cannot run an XBox game in Playstation and vice-versa. That is the default behavior of apps between different platforms.
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I totally understand complaining about it.
The issue I have (which I expect is the more pedantic accurate wording of your belief) is the misplaced anger and placing of blame.
Linux isn't to blame, the game studios / publishers are.
Of course, to be fair, a lot (certainly not all) of the issue is there's insufficient demand for them on Linux, but there's not going to be sufficient demand until there's sufficient supply (which we're all aware of).
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Come to think of it, abandoning Windows is like abandoning your religion you grew-up with. Of course, the transition will never be easy. As basically moving to Linux only means you have to change your perception when it comes to personal computing. Since childhood first learning Windows, we all thought that letters to represent storage devices are intuitive. But the reality is it just happened that way because of Microsoft's persistence when it comes to backward compatibility, going back all the way to DOS in 1981. As MS-DOS was just a rip-off of CP/M which first used drive letters to represent storage devices.
Linux's way of representing drives logically is universal, it is the same way that MacOS, Android and all non-Microsoft OS deals with drives.
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Well the new one is out?
I liked the way there printers just worked. 
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Dolphin, oh Dolphin 
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A time limit of 15 minutes per task completion is laughable. With that as the standard, Windows would fail the same challenge if someone unfamiliar with the Windows OS had to complete the same tasks in the same amount of time.
Is doing something for a whole 15 mins the maximum that the new generation of ADD afflicted computer users can manage nowadays?
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That one seemed a lot more positive than the previous 2. I have a feeling because they are not using Garuda gamer where everything is set up already for you that their next video will be a nightmare unless they stick to mostly steam games.
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I thought the guy on the right was hysterical. Especially when he went into hysterics a time or two. He might be fun to watch on their gaming-in-Linux part that’s to come…fun in a vicarious sort of way.
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The way they spoke of the difficulty of completing some of the tasks in Windows, it certainly would be daunting. That said, as a long-term Linux user working in Windows for the first time in years, it certainly makes me appreciate Linux’s straightforwardness and ease of use. The (sub)systems underlying Windows have gotten so complex since I last dove into it, I don’t know how anyone can stand using it.
The whole thing, taken down to a simple perspective, reminds me of old-fashioned, laughable spaghetti code.
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I haven't used a Windows system in so long if I poke around one of my kids Windows computers, I'm just like WTF happened? Windows is plenty convoluted for those not used to it, so it goes both ways.
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How about this task in 15 minutes: Update all your programs. I don't think Windows can do that easily lol.
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Or update the system. Windows update is hot garbage. 
Linus and Luke both had good points. Especially Linus at the end of the video. Some Linux users are memes.
So, does Manjaro not have Root Actions installed by default for Dolphin? It's annoying to me if distros don't include that, it just seems like an obvious inclusion (except for those who believe vim is distro bloatware).
Why did Linus keep choosing to work with the largest files available, like WTF?!?
And since when did Dolphin not respect F5?
E2A: Gotta love that one or two toxic people in a community the size of Linux's is sufficient to be all "waaa waaa waaa". Take a look at your own community Linus, happens to all.
I did like Luke's summation, that's far more appropriate. Celebrate and support diversity and full spectrum representation.
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Seriously, Mr. Sebastian made himself a laughing stock again when he expected a 4GB compression in a USB drive should end in mere seconds. The ignorance of renaming the temp zip file while it is actually being processed for compression (which in fact a capability that Linux gives users, Windows don't allow deletion of file that is currently opened in an app) by the computer is really a facepalm scene for anyone who knows about computers in general. That is not even a Linux-exclusive feature, Windows cannot compress 4GB file in a USB drive for mere seconds either.
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Linux speedrun by novice users, really a very laughable scene. Learning an OS is not a speedrun activity, it takes decades. Yes, even Windows users spent decades before becoming a power user.
We can switch the scenario with a completely new Windows user doing the same list of tasks for 15 minutes each.
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Like this dude's (sorta) doing?
He's being a BIT unfair on Windows as he won't use CLi/powershell because of Linus's comment, but I find that equivalent to not using WINE.
Still found the first two videos somewhat amusing and insightful.
15 minutes, I can remember spending weeks trying to get my CD-ROM working in Windows way back when. The Toshiba CD driver had a syntax error in it that I had to edit myself to get it working. So, Windows was not without teething issues as well when it came to hardware.
Older hardware support in Windows is dropped like a hot potato, so you'll actually find far better support for older hardware with Linux. People just have been brainwashed in the Windows world to think it's acceptable to drop hardware support after a few years when a newer version of Windows has been rolled out. It's just one big cash cow of designed obsolescence in the Windows and Apple worlds where the user is constantly expected to replace their hardware every few years.
Why don't they do a comparison of the average yearly expenditures to operate a computer in the Windows world versus the near zero expenditures when using Linux.
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We have to rush raw materials from the ground to landfill to create jobs or the economy will collapse. DUH!!
So says people who entirely lack imagination and just regurgitating economic philosophy from several decades ago when it wasn't conceivable that resources could be depleted or that we could affect the stability of the planet or that we'd have machines doing most of the work, so it's barely creating any jobs for people anyway.
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