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    This post is from 2021-11-11.

    It should've been apt-get but welp.

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    [–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It works either way, apt or apt-get.

    [–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

    I know but the command he used was apt-get.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I remember apt had a colored progress bar unlike apt-get. Don't know how it is now, using pacman and yay

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Did you just say "i use arch btw" whithout saying it?

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

    Wasn't my intention, but I guess I did

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    I love how unnecessary it was to the overall context lol

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    What is this referencing? In which video did this happen?

    [–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    One of the Linux challenge videos. Either part 1 or 2.

    The Linux community loves hating on Linus for this, but honestly, it was a bug that popos has now fixed, and the video genuinely shows how difficult Linux can be for the average user.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    For real though, what's the best way to install steam? I assume it's the *.deb directly from the site.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Flatpak can't launch non-steam games via Steam :(

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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Is there a way to do it without breaking the sandbox? I've been looking for a few days for a way to do this without any luck.

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

    What do you mean by breaking the sandbox. You add permissions to let it see other drives if that's what you mean. Other then that, I just let it see my home and add non steam games. They come up like you would with Windows.

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

    You just give it permission to see whatever directory you're launching the exe from

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

    I'm not launching an exe I am trying to launch flatpaks and appimages

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

    What do you mean by breaking the sandbox. You add permissions to let it see other drives if that's what you mean. Other then that, I just let it see my home and add non steam games. They come up like you would with Windows.

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

    Depends on the distro. pacman -Sy steam does the trick in Arch.

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

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

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

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

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    And the flatpack version was thoroughly convinced :)

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

    I recently started thinking like that too after the last glibc update. :)

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