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Up until recently, various flavors of Linus had trouble with standard browser videos.

Mint 18 improved on that, but there were still problems with some videos. Mint 19 made better stride and Mint 20 seems to have eliminated the problem.

My cable co internet app for TV still does not support Linux, even though it does support android products.

Since I am retired, I do not do much heavy processing. Whenever a significant task comes along, I usually load up Word 97 or Excel 97 or Publisher 98 or the appropriate software in Windows and get the job done.

I recently upgraded to Win10 about 6 months ago. I still prefer Win7, but have found Win10 tolerable. Neither my Win10 desktop and tablet support Win11, and I don’t intend to upgrade until my Win10s die.

"Up until recently, various flavors of Linus had trouble with standard browser videos."

You've been using the wrong browsers. I haven't owned a television since 2008 and all the TV I've watched at home since then I watched online and in a browser, usually Tor/Firefox browser, on Linux Mint.

The single biggest reason people won't try Linux is fear, and they're afraid of it because of anachronisms, misrepresentations and outright lies that told about it. I sincerely believe that if you went to a desert island where no one had ever seen a PC before and gave half the residents Windows 11 PCs and the other half PCs with Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon, the Linux group would become proficient sooner. People cling so desperately to Windows mostly because it's the devil they know.

And a lot of people are afraid of command line. If you're one of them, I've got news for you. It's possible to do Linux and remain utterly command line-ignorant, but you leave a lot of potential untapped that best is accessed through command line interface. Then again, if you consider yourself a sophisticated Windows user and don't do CLI, you're only kidding yourself. You're only tapping a fraction of the potential of that OS.

The Linux crowd embraces the truth that command line makes computing better. Th Windows crowd still has their heads stuck in the sand.

“I recently upgraded to Win10 about 6 months ago. I still prefer Win7”

I tried to use DH’s Win 10 laptop yesterday which has Office 365 installed. It doesn’t recognize most of the keyboard shortcuts of Win 7 and MS Office 2003, and prior versions. Incredibly frustrating! Every day I have to use a mouse is a bad day for me.