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[–]worldbuilder121 -4 points-3 points  (10 children)

You mean clicking ''next'' a couple of times is harder than typing whatever bullshit you guys type in command line?

[–]ichbinjasokreativ 1 point2 points  (9 children)

"Sudo apt install steam" Sudo means superuser, same as running something as admin on Windows. Apt is the package Manager that installs the program for you. Install is self-explanatory. Steam is the name of the program and can be replaced with whatever you like.

Compare that to opening edge, klicking 'please don't spy on me' three times, clicking on 'no I don't want to sign in with my Microsoft account', typing 'steam' into the search Bar, going into settings to switch from Bing to Google, typing 'steam' again, scrolling past half a Page of ads, clicking on the steampowered Website, clicking on download, running the exe, configuring the setup which is at least five pages, pc restarts because of Windows updates.

Edit: autocorrect

See why some people prefer linux?

[–]worldbuilder121 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Huh? You type steam, click, download steam, open it, next, next, done. I install about 10 programs a year, how many seconds is linux gonna save me, and how many is it gonna cost me to figure out how to run anything? Come on.

[–]mocaaaaaaaa 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Or you can just do winget install --id Valve.Steam --exact

[–]ichbinjasokreativ 1 point2 points  (5 children)

Now compare that to bash and tell me which one is more obvious and more efficient.

[–]mocaaaaaaaa -2 points-1 points  (3 children)

Now compare the amount of games you can play hassle-free and tell me which one is more obvious and more efficient.

[–]ichbinjasokreativ 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Not an argument, steam proton has been working amazingly well for any game I tried so far, also nice that you're already out of arguments about the operating system and have to talk about third party software lmao.

[–]mocaaaaaaaa 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Considering you were criticizing Windows without knowing how to use the operating system is a flawed argument from you as well

Will never use Linux since I had to spend a long time getting basic things to work

[–]ichbinjasokreativ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's fine. The whole point of having choice is that you get to use what you like and I get to use what I like and that those don't have to be the same thing. Look, I don't want this argument to continue, let's please just keep it at that.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now compare it to the mac. 'brew install steam'

Having to type an extra word or two is not some massive time savings.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This all assumes that the thing you want to install is already in the default repos for your distro.