Re: For everybody...
The only people getting huffy seem to be the one's who expect somebody else to solve all their problems.
Like I said, if the tool doesn't do what we need we need to get a tool that does. Can't say I have EVER had problems in recent years (the last ten?) getting acceptable sound from Youtube, but maybe I was just born lucky!
OTOH, I would appreciate some better OCR facilities (mind you that's not actually a 'Linux' problem). Overall though I seem to get things done across the board without needing to tear my hair out, so it can't be all that bad.
I just don't get the whining, do folk assume that because something is 'free' it should necessarily be 'perfect', i.e. be everything they want/need it to be? There seems to be some kind of logical disconnect going on, where the fact that 'Linux' is just another OS - with its own peculiarities - which people are literally 'free' to take or leave according to their need and whim, gets thrown out the window and replaced by existential rage at the unfairness of life and the clear malice of the software developers.
If, however, you are compelled to use it through your slavery to 'The Man' then, of course, Linux is as fair game as any other OS for being held up as a crime against IT, and humanity generally!