Keep in mind that cosmic is still in an alpha build. It’s missing a lot of features and his buggy here are there. I’m sure it will be pretty awesome and once it releases it 1.0 version.

Is this one of those things where people try to install Linux on something simply to see if it can be done, or is there a practical upshot to this?

Nope, not without a YouTube login to verify age. I just ran into this the other day.

This may precipitate a massive shift to Linux, especially for gamers.

I run it on the servers I administrate and recommend it to everyone, but I can’t switch until the get Adobe support. I NEED to use Adobe apps for work. At least macOS is UNIX and far better than Winblows.

Both gnome and KDE have this functionality built-in to the system now. It’s under display settings.

There is an app called playon which allows you to record shows from streaming services. It has both a Mac and a Windows version.