On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 02:00:34 -0000 (UTC), Diesel wrote:

I didn't run across any horrors with the process.

Hi Diesel,

Thank you for all your help and kind advice.

If you dual-booted to Linux to plug in the iOS iPad via USB without iTunes,
the task that takes technical knowledge is knowing how to _write_ to the
entire visible file system of the non-jailbroken iPad over USB without
iTunes from Linux or Windows, which includes the critically important
_DCIM_ directory tree of the non-jailbroken iOS iPad.

Keep in mind what I said above entails technical detail of...
1. No jailbreak
2. No iTunes
3. Write access to the entire visible iOS file system
For example, *write access to the /DCIM/APPLE101/ folder!*
4. Over USB

I'm not a mac person either and didn't run into any serious issues
with that.

It's binary:
a. People either can write to the visible file system, or they can not;
b. If they can not, then they don't understand what I'm talking about.

A simple yes:no litmus test is:
a. Can people write to the DCIM hierarchy of the iOS iPad or not?
b. If they can't, then they don't comprehend what I'm explaining.

That may actually have something to do with your completely
unnecessary desire not to use default installation folders.

This post shows that the paths were a red-herring guess:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.mobile.android/aW64zYeBtF0/PDMW1--EBAAJ