There are no problems on GNU/Linux only new areas of ignorance coming to your awareness. These are really opportuinities to learn. What you call problems is really some sort of ignorance of the underlying systems. Filling in the blind spot usually resolves the issue. You becoming aware of this is a great opportunity for this to self-correct. Thus you don’t have problems on GNU/linux instead you have growing opportunities. And boy oh boy are there lots of them 😃

alright

Stop Using Windows And MacOS use GNU/Linux instead -> Problem Solved

which you could get around by using another frontend for youtube or just going with vlc all the way by playing the url in vlc directly.

They can reasonably argue that advertising is a requirement of their business model,

Couldn’t that claim be countered by pointing out that they already deploy a for pay approach called youtube premium?

tbh never looked into snaps flatbacks or appimages. However my instinct as a staunch linux is that anything besides apt-get or apt or aptitude is utter trash. we already have apt, why do people feel the need to divert energies to these unneccessary packagemanagement-fads?