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Linux Distros (Gaming) From 2018 to 2025 - OMG the Change! (peertube.wtf)
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[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Same experience for me.
Recently I booted the Live CD to test something, downloaded Steam via the Ubuntu App Store and that Snap garbage wouldn't even launch, meanwhile the Steam.deb worked perfectly fine on the same environment. Imagine getting that as your first experience with Linux.....