/nIn news wrote:

I have no trouble figuring out a console program,
but unless it's absolutely the only option I never
will. For the same reason that I use a key to start
my car and haven't built in a crank to use instead.

I'm with you in that I *prefer* an all-in-one GUI.

The only problem is that I couldn't get the youtube downloader all-in-one
gui to work for me so I gave up since the cost of freeware is measured in
failed tests.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/youtube-dl-gtk/

So I just use the command line, where I only run one of these two commands:

Video download as MP4:
cmd youtube-dl.exe -f 18 https://youtu.be/VuNIsY6JdUw
Audio extraction as M4A:
cmd youtube-dl.exe -f 140 https://youtu.be/VuNIsY6JdUw

PS: I have no idea what the numbers mean as it only matters that it works.