I think I should have expressed myself with a bit more nuance. Using linux as the only operating system for general computing is much easier than using Windows, if you do exactly the same with that linux machine as you do with the windows machine, and it immediately is much safer and more private and cheaper within those parameters, and any mainstream linux distro will fit that bill, BUT, things are the way they are, and chances are that some of the advanced power of the system will be so seductive, that users without proper knowledge of the internals of a system and without any motivation to learn them, will still want to use those advanced powers. And that's where it becomes dangerous, because software console users are used to a system whereby you buy a standard package, and if you want something extra, like the ability to use more than one CPU, or the ability to use more than 16 GB of RAM, or the ability to legally download music, or the ability to create something, you have to buy a "pack" or an "extension" or a particular software or a subscription to have access to that. That makes these basic functions into "features" on software consoles. On linux systems, all the "features" are already there, and much more than you could ever imagine is there to use and experiment with, but NOT in the same way as on a commercial "pay-per-feature" platform. Using linux comes with a lot of responsibility, because it's possible to seriously cause trouble for yourself of for others when you're using the power of linux without fully understanding how it works and without the discipline of doing things the right way.
For instance: if people don't understand the principle of official repositories, but go ahead and install a linux distro and then go on google and search for software, and install something system-wide from some non-official source, believe me, that would be a really bad thing, because once the user - because of ignorance - allows a software to have root access on a linux system, that software can hurt the user much more than it could on a closed source software console platform with commercial software, and that software could also use the power of that linux system to hurt others.
Other example: when a user doesn't understand the principle of "mounting" a storage volume, and reads on the internet that (quite correctly so) the performance of certain storage devices can be boosted by editing the /etc/fstab file, but doesn't know what those parameter additions do exactly, sooner or later, this is going to cause a serious problem with data loss or ever hardware destruction as a consequence. This is not a problem in Windows, because Windows doesn't have those performance benefits anyway, so there was never any need for deeper understanding the principles in order to use the device at maximum potential, even if that maximum potential is only a fraction of the real potential, which is entirely available in linux.
I'm definitely not saying that people should refrain from learning and using linux, quite on the contrary, I'm just saying that it is something for individual users to decide if they have the right motivation for it. Just posting a video on the internet on how to install a linux distro, is not the "open invitation" of open source software towards users, but it's more of a "do this or you're not part of the club" kind of thing, and users that lack the necessary motivation may feel compelled to use systems that are not under their control. Because the reality of it all is very simply that if you voluntarily and consciously choose to move to linux, the first two weeks will probably be spent on discovering the system and reading up on the internals and the reasons why computers work as they do, and downloading music or nmapping school networks and forcing DHCP instances to drop and refresh and encrypting storage and setting up distributed systems and creating game maps and editing parameters of programs and scripting stuff, will probably look cool and there will be a lot of ready-to-go tutorials on the internet, but believe me, if you don't understand the principle of those things, you don't want to mess with them. Every linux distro has the tools built in to do advanced hacks of pretty much anything, every linux distro has the tools for advanced spoofing and MIM data manipulation, every linux distro is completely DRM-free and has all the tools to rip and download and process copyrighted material, every linux distro has all the tools needed for boosting performance on pretty much any piece of hardware that can be connected in some way to a PC, but what good can come of telling people to use such a powerful system when they don't understand or want to learn what is happening.
Another aspect of open source in general is, that even if you learn how to use a linux distro and open source software to the fullest extent of its capabilities, that's not an end point or a goal per se like on a commercial closed source platform. The power of open source lies in the opportunity. Generally, every peiece of open source software is a constant work in progress, it is never finished. That doesn't mean that it's buggy or not fully featured or whatever, but that means that it isn't put in a box with a list of features on it whereby someone says "here you have it, that's what you're going to use from now on". Quite on the contrary, the open invitation continues: users are invited to discuss the software and the use cases, to suggest changes, and to participate in making those changes and improvements happen. That's where the real satisfaction lies, that's also where even more knowledge of how things work is required, in order to avoid breaking other people's work while modifying the crap out of a particular piece of software, in order to keep everything safe and to respect all possible licenses and rights of other people, etc... and the coolest thing, finding minds alike and teaming up to make projects happen, benefit from them yourself, and sharing them with the open source world so that others may also benefit. I think this "feature" of open source software in general gets far too little attention, because a computer is just a stupid machine, but it's the most powerful tool ever developed by mankind in order to exponentially increase human knowledge and the proliferation thereof, because in the first place, an open source platform computer connected to the internet is an aggregator, it's the user's private google search, but not focused on extorting money from the user, but focused on providing the user with just the knowledgable solution he requires. A user can use a linux install just to surf the web (and it will still be a better and safer experience than doing so with windows) and let Google and other corporations mine data on the user and let them build a bubble around the user, etc... but the user can also opt out of that, and use the powerful linux system to first acquire knowledge and a clear point of view, and then become a member of the open source community, get a github account, sync data over his own parallel private cloud using github, use the system to optimize android phones, to make a nice environment for himself, and then to use the knowledge and power to provide services for others that would otherwise not have access to these services, and charge money for that while making those people happy.
Open source software is free to download, but not free as in free beer. In order to get the full advantage of it, it will cost time and effort, but the benefit will be huge. Now how to explain that in a video on how to install a linux distro? How to explain that that video is only for the people that seek that benefit, and not for the people that seek a faster and cheaper way to consume content? How to explain that there aren't two linux users on the face of the earth (or above, because linux is also used in orbit, and even on Mars for that matter), that have the same install, but that all installs are customized, and that it's up to the user that has customized that install (used the advanced power of that system to make it more efficient for himself) to know what updates and what patches go where and when in order to maintain that system. These are things that require some kind of commitment from the user. Not that it will be harder once the user knows some things about it, in fact, in will be much simpler and faster and more stable, but it is a shift of responsibility: if something in a Windows install doesn't work, the thing to do is to wait until some company comes up with a patch, if something in a linux install doesn't work, you simply use another method while people work on it (which is what open source users call "quick and dirty"), or you solve it yourself, but the one that has to initiate the solution for that customized linux install, is still the user himself. Many people don't have any interest in such an experience whatsoever, others couldn't live without. That's why open source is an "invitation", and that's why I don't think that it's even possible to make a video on how to install a linux distro in a way that will produce a pleasing result for most of the viewers of that video that follow the instructions in that video.