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It should’ve been apt-get but welp.

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      Probably through your GUI package manager. I’d be surprised if your package manager didn’t have a native binary or a flatpack.

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      I think I’ve read it somewhere that Valve recommends the flatpak. Maybe not, but I would definitely go that route.

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      I prefer my distro’s binary but after the last glibc update I convinced the flatpak version has less problems.

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      It’s through the package manager of your distro, apt, pacman, dnf… It has the best integration with the system and other apps installed though the package manager (if there is a gui on your distro, it is the same thing, tho some allow to chose between different sources.

      The flatpak version it may also be viable.

      Deb is a very bad idea as you wont have the dependencies installed automatically.

      Linus was just stupid and did not update pop os after install. Tho he could have updated it and maybe when he did the recording the issues was discovered but not yet fixed. But The issue was already well fixed when he posted the video. I don’t remember how all went.

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        Nah, you can’t blame the user here champ.

        He installed the OS, opened the default software center, and installed a package.

        There’s simply no way to justify what happened. I challenge you to find any situation in which installing a package from the Microsoft Store would uninstall critical system packages and also kill the entire GUI.

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          Was it the default software center? From my memory of the video, he tried to install Steam through the Ubuntu Software Center at first which failed, and then he found a guide that mentioned using sudo apt install steam to which apt made him type Yes, do as I say to confirm the (unfortunate) set of actions it was going to perform.

          While I still don’t blame Linus, a more apt (ha!) comparison would probably be trying to do something over the CLI instead of through the Microsoft Store.

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          The inability to install Steam i can blame on PopOS. He could genuinely don’t know that you should update your system first. At the point when he typed yes, do as i say when i first watched i wanted to bang my head against my desk. He clearly didn’t read what was going to happen even when the system tried warning him.

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          As someone else said no it wasn’t installed though the software manger. It just failed to install though that way.

          He went for a guide CLEARLY LABELED AS DANGEROUS MULTIPLE TIMES using the terminal with the “do as I say” command.

          Tho this issue shouldn’t have happened, but it happened. And was blocked for a normal install.

          He just forced it through a command.

          Here : https://youtu.be/0506yDSgU7M

          Go check because it seems you’re too lazy to search for the video