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        • carbon_dated
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          3 years ago

          There are distros that are FSF approved. Examples are GuixSD, Trisquel and Parabola.

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        3 years ago

        maybe it once was. anyway, steam is still not trivial to download, linus would have a hard time

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          3 years ago

          If you can download a .exe installer, you can download a .rpm file and use the graphical .rpm installer to install steam.

        • Jeffrey
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          3 years ago

          Just search “install steam Fedora” and the first result is https://itsfoss.com/install-steam-fedora/

          In that guide it has the correct instructions to enable the RPMFusion repos, then install steam. It even provides the necessary terminal commands to copy + paste:

          sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

          sudo dnf install steam

          Never mind that Linus could tweet “how do I install steam on Fedora?” or ask his live stream, he’d be flooded with the correct answer in like 3 seconds.

          Edit: Flatpack is enabled by default on Fedora, too. He could just go to https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.valvesoftware.Steam to download and install Steam directly from the web. That’s pretty much the same process as downloading an installer on Windows.

          • joojmachine
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            3 years ago

            if he used gnome he could literally just check a box on gnome software repos option and install it through RPM fusion with it

            at least with 35 beta it’s there, right next to the NVIDIA option

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      It seemed pretty non-trivial to get it, back when I using it. I think rpmfusion was just available after install and steam was there in the app store.