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    submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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    I’m moving my posts from Reddit to Lemmy before delete them.

    This post is from 2021-11-11.

    It should've been apt-get but welp.

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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    But why? Wasn't it an error in the deb package of steam that did that?

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I believe it was before system76 created they own mirrors, so at the time a feel packages where handle by them and all the rest by the normal ubuntu mirrors, so steam would ask for a different gtk version them the desktop so the pop shop would refuse to install steam whitout updating the mirrors, if linus had clicked on the dropdown menu and choose the flatpak version none of this would happen, but instead he used the terminal and ignored the warning because was the first time that he used

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Honestly, I cannot blame him for that. This requires deep knowledge of the subject and the fix is not easy to spot.

    I have been using Linux for a decade now on desktop and server systems and he'll, even I would probably have told the package manager to go do it's shit and borked my system. Because getting weird errors, warnings and conflicts is just "the Linux experience" (TM)

    I hope more flatpack based distris come up or stuff like nix gains some following. This would make it a lot easier for people with less knowledge to get into the Linux space without much technical knowledge or the possibility to Bork the system (to a degree). Meanwhile classic distros can serve the more technically inclined audience.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    I also don't really judge him, but i think that even thought the ideia was to go as a complete newbie to linux he should at least do some real research or whatch a feel youtube videos about before doing the challenge, i first installed ubuntu and after a afternoon i don't really wanned to keep using linux, them i watched some videos and started to use pop os on a live usb, after 2 days of using it instead of booting normally on windows 10 i wiped windows and never looked back