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How to Actually Clean Install Windows 11
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insert specific versions of missing dependencies here for whatever program you try to run
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.
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.
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: https://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."
Can't speak from experience as I've never touched Void Linux, but reading about it to make this comment, it sounds like Arch but worse. A rolling release GUI-optional distro with its own special boy package manager...yeah I'm starting to believe your dependency hell woes.
Either way the command for installing Flatpak on Void is sudo xbps-install -S flatpak, which I would expect a user of Void Linux to know or be willing to learn.
Ah... there's your problem.
Are you serious? I can install nearly any software just by typing 'sudo apt install' and that's it. How is that difficult?
I don't have issues like that... Like ever.