This is not entirely true. As someone that recently switched to Ubuntu from being a long time windows user.<p>Your apt-get scenario only works if what you&#x27;re looking for is in the official repositories. If not, you have to add those repositories first. That&#x27;s a lucky menu find in the Ubuntu installer or some random add repo command with some possibly untrusted domain in it.<p>Then... You get random install errors. Missing so files or package dependencies etc.<p>Trust me,  I&#x27;ve done more googling trying to install stuff on Ubuntu than I ever did on Windows. At least with windows if you had the exe or msi file you were dons 99% of the time. And you almost always found that file on the site for that program.