I always found Linux to be a perfectly fine operating system, as long as you didn't want to do anything wildly advanced or sophisticated, like playing music or videos, or connecting a printer.
Yes this was true of printers on linux a few years ago, but things have gotten better you know.
Streaming video, you just have to work out the path /dev/video0 , but remember to sudo the video application from a command line prompt rather than click the icon!
Yes, to be honest it could be easier
