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the_q@lemmy.world 1 year agoI 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.
vsh@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Downloading apps games and software should not be difficult, yet Linux proves it otherwise
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.
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
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I pretty much outright don’t believe you. Flatpak ships by default on a lot of distros; it works on Linux Mint and is integrated with Mint’s software center. In my procedure I said “click the first option that pops up” well the Flatpak version is the second option. I do know that Manjaro requires you to go into the software manager’s settings and toggle it on, and Ubuntu deliberately doesn’t include Flatpak by default because of their competing Snap store.
The assertion that Flatpak “does not come by default on most systems” is factually incorrect. Per this page: flathub.org/setup the majority of distros listed say that “Flatpak is included with newer versions by default and is ready out of the box.” With a notable exception of regular old Ubuntu, for which the command is “sudo apt install flatpak.” Or Arch or Gentoo, whose entire deal is “By default we install AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE. Do it yourself.”
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?
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”
the_q@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t have issues like that… Like ever.