Mr Linus trying to install Steam but completely missing the fact that doing so would inadvertently uninstall his entire desktop is classic apt dependency resolution at work that I can’t believe is still a thing in 2021. Absolutely embarrassing for whoever is responsible for packaging software in PopOS
@wysteria2 Wdym it's without dependency resolution? It resolves that they don't work together, and tells you this. If you tell it to break the system, it does. It has it's on method for installing steam that doesnt break shit
@wysteria2 Steam only officially supports ubuntu, and is a weird precompiled mesh of old 32bit libraries and junk. A lot of distros tend to just install it in a container for that reason. Honestly wouldnt be odd if there is an actual full proper incompatibility thats hard to deal with on a system where binaries are expected to not be ass
Installing the PopOS package for Steam on the PopOS distro using the method officially endorsed by PopOS should literally not be breaking shit to begin with, it's a fixable issue, there's probably someone at PopOS right now trying to figure out why their Steam package makes apt think that the desktop environment needs to be removed first.