 So I promised myself that I was not going to make a video about the latest Linus Tech Tips Linux challenge thing that was released a couple days ago, but I'm going to break that promise because as is usual with these videos, they give me ideas. Now I'm not going to be one of the Linux YouTubers that goes through and does a reaction video because there's a lot of those. I mean, just check out any of the big YouTubers that do Linux content and most of them have done reaction videos to at least some of the Linus stuff. I don't want to do that. So what I've been trying to do is pull out singular topics to respond to instead of going through their videos minute by minute. In the latest video, they were going through and doing common tasks on Linux. And that video got me thinking about how people use Linux and how people assume Linux is used because I think one of the biggest hurdles a lot of people who switch to Linux have is they assume that Linux is hard to use. Like they assume that every single small minute task is going to be some Herculean effort in order to get done. For example, installing a font. Now I don't remember which one it was as either Luke or Linus. I think it was Luke. He was when he was trying to install the font, he found the font folder, which is a hidden folder for the most part, or it's in the root directory. And then he was dragging it between two open file managers and that can that is a way to do it. But the whole time I was shouting at him, just click on the font. Just click on the font. It's not hard, right? Like I think that that was a case of him assuming that it had to be done in this particularly hard way. I mean, it's not really hard, but I mean, compared to clicking on it, it's a hard way. And I think that a lot of new Linux users do this. They approach a task that is actually really simple, but maybe different than what it would be like. Like on Windows and assume that you have to know bash in order to do it, or that you have to be a hacker in order to do it. You know, it's an assumption that is completely false for the most part. Most everyday tasks on Linux are astonishingly easy. Are they different than what you'd see on Windows? Of course they are. Linux is not Windows. Things are, of course, going to be different. But that doesn't mean that things are hard. Now, as I've talked about before, empathizing with new users can be difficult. So it's hard to remember what it was like as a new Linux user. So it's hard to think about other people being new Linux users and then not knowing these really simple things. So it's easy for me as someone who's used Linux for a long time to look at someone who is brand new to Linux and think like, how could you not know this? And that's a flaw on my part. But I don't think that the assumption that a lot of new users make of how difficult Linux is is correct. It's not something that they should do. And it's something that they themselves need to overcome. Because Linux, for the most part, is not hard. Now, there are hard things on Linux, hard things to do on Linux. But just the everyday tasks, signing a PDF, not hard. Installing a font, not hard. Compressing a file, not hard. Is it different? Again, is it different than Windows? Sure. But it's not hard. And sometimes I don't understand how someone can use a Linux distro for three weeks and not understand, not know that Plasma puts all their notifications down by the bar. It's literally exactly the same as Windows. Only Plasma actually sends more notifications than Windows does. At least they're relevant notifications, but everything that Plasma does, they put a notification down on the right hand side when the bar is there. If you move the bar, then obviously the notifications move. But Windows puts them on the bottom right, just like Plasma does. So how do you cannot know? And what I'm specifically talking about here is when Linux was going through and compressing the files, when you do that, the notification for the progress bar is in the notifications. And it pops up. It's a blatant notification. That's the way Dolphin does all the notifications. All the progress bars for Dolphin go there. And that's not something you would know when you first start, but using an operating system for three weeks, you'd think that that's something that you could figure out. So I guess my point is Linux isn't hard unless you deliberately make it hard. The question becomes then, what can we do about it? And there's not a lot to do about we can do it. If you're just switching from Windows to Linux, the best thing you can do is seek help when you don't know something, but also not be afraid to experiment and also try not to assume that Linux is always going to force you to do things in the hardest way possible, because for the most part, that's never going to be the case. Usually Linux does things in a common sense way. So for example, if you want to install font, double click it. If you want to find the progress bar for whatever you're doing in the file manager, chances are it's either in the notifications like in Plasma or it's in the top bar if you're using something like Nautilus, which is files for GNOME. So yes, it is different from distro to distro and that can be very confusing. But for the most part, stuff at least functions along the same lines no matter where you are in Linux. And it's not hard is the point. So a little bit of a rambly video there and mostly pointless, but I just don't think that it's right to assume that Linux is always going to treat you like a horrible person. And expect you to know how to hack into something. I mean, it's just, you know, don't always assume that the hard way is the Linux way because it's most for the most part, that's never true. So that is it for this video. You can follow me on Twitter at Linuxcast. 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