I don’t understand how literally every way of installing a program on Linux is controversial or incredibly confusing

Windows is just .exe possibly a couple clicks that’s it. possibly it’s a .msi which is also super easy. 99.5% of the time no issues whatsoever.

however in Linux there are 27 different ways and none of them work well, so anytime you try to install something to do something incredibly basic it’s like “enter these 5 terminal commands you have no idea about” or it just gives you a file with no instructions on what the hell to do with it.

then there’s OSes that don’t even support installing things for some reason???

and whenever you DO manage to get it to run after 2 hours of googling whatever the fuck a program.rpm file is it doesn’t even work!!

maybe I’m just really dumb but how the hell can this be such a simple action in a computer and be so incredibly complicated??

which one out of 50 are the one I’m looking for? NO IDEA!!