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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

      • SudoDnfDashY
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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