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    [–] aski3252@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    I just wanted to install steam, but it wasn’t in the package manager list.

    Maybe you used Debian, which only allows free software in their default repo? But then you won't be able to just install it with apt either. But even if it is not in the repository, you could still go on steam website and download the package from there, so literally the same experience as on windows..

    You don’t have to do seriously advanced stuff on linux to run into issues without using the terminal.

    Like what?

    It’s not realistic that you don’t have to use the terminal on linux if you want to do any more than web browsing and some text editing, etc.

    10 years ago, or maybe even 5 years ago, I would have agreed with you. Not anymore though, not if you use a half-way beginner friendly distro..

    [–] Noobnarski@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    Yup, it was debian. I think I tried adding another repo, but gave up before I got it to work. I didn't try to just download the file, because I had done that before and all I could do is extract whatever is inside the file, but not install it.

    It was around 2 years ago, maybe Linux has gotten that much more user friendly in the last two years, but I doubt it.

    [–] aski3252@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

    I use and love debian a lot for servers because it is super stable and relatively lightweight, but I definitely would not recommend it for desktops/notebooks, especially not to people new to linux based systems.

    It's super purist about foss, which means you only get free and open source software (no steam, discord, etc) per default and it uses an older kernel (which makes it more stable, but less feature rich and less compatible with new hardware).

    If you use something like fedora, linux mint (as far as I heard) or even ubuntu, your experience would probably be a lot better.