no i haven’t tried steam yet- I read in the iracign forum that iracign doesn’t work well on steam- and that’s really the only one i play online- all my other games are offline- so i don’t mind rebooting into windows for that -
[[I like the ability to go manage and download software right from the desktop and have the manager do the hard work of checking for all the other files needed for the program you are grabbing and put it all together for you at one time.]]
I never could get the hang of the synaptic package manager- The software manager though isn’t hard at all- just a couple clicks- and you’re done- they have certainly made linux much easier to use- tried it back in the 90’s and gave up on it- glad i tried it again recently- much much easier-
The software manager is great! but synaptic can find and get you stuff from the repository that the software manager doesn’t see. Synaptic is just a search engine. I go digging around on the net for something good I want and then just go enter it into the search on synaptic.
Synaptic goes and finds the latest version available and the supporting bonus ware from the TRUSTED repositories (which isn’t always the very very newest, but very close). Key point here, TRUSTED sources.
Then it checks your system and attaches what extra files you are going to need for that program. Then after it is downloaded I have it go update to the very newest version using the update manager that has usually already went to look for that newer version on it’s own. Done... up to date and pretty painless from your desktop. It really is a cool system.
But don’t shy away from the command line... Learn to use it too. Because what it can do is incredible compared to both the software manager and Synaptic. In fact a lot of downloads you just copy a code from the vendor, paste it into the command line, and hit enter. Then it does it’s thing slicker than snot. lol