Comment on How to Actually Clean Install Windows 11

• the_q@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean sure I guess? I don’t know what you’re running where that happens a lot, but everything I have on my system has been as easy or easier to install as Windows.

  Joking and snark aside, Linux can be as difficult or as easy to use as you want it to be.

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  • vsh@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Linux can be as difficult or as easy to use as you want it to be.

    Downloading apps games and software should not be difficult, yet Linux proves it otherwise

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Installing Steam on Windows: Microsoft has a store but it sucks, I don’t think Steam is even in there, so you have to open up your browser and remember that the URL is steampowered.com or maybe valvesoftware.com, or google it, somehow make visually sure you’ve found the right webpage and that you’re not being scammed, find the download page, click Download, now it downloads a small installer .exe to your Downloads folder, open up your file manager, go to you Downloads folder, find the .exe that just came down, click that, there’s a several step process that asks you several questions that amount to “do you want to install this in a non-standard place that will break shit later?” then it downloads and installs the actual app.

      Installing Steam on Linux (I’m using Mint Cinnamon here, but the process is pretty similar for most popular distros): Open the software manager, type “steam” in the search box, click on the first result to come up, click install, key in your password, it downloads and installs the app.

      TL;DR: Everyone. Android, iOS, MacOS, every single Linux distro. Everyone. Has a functioning app store system that users actually use. Except Windows.

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      • vsh@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Good for you. When I was installing steam on ANY Linux so far, the installation didn’t finish because of missing dependencies. What kind of dependencies? - No idea, go figure it out on your own.

        Without the help of Google I wouldn’t have steam.

        Sure I could install flatpak right? But flatpak does not come by default on most systems, so what kind of command do I have to run to install it? Again no idea -> go google the command or its website

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    • the_q@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Are you serious? I can install nearly any software just by typing ‘sudo apt install’ and that’s it. How is that difficult?

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      • vsh@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s difficult when it doesn’t work ;)

        Then you are forced to dive into “what next dependency I have to install”

        Or worse “what package conflicts with what I want to install”

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