So he nuked the OS on purpose and then blamed Linux.

No, he nuked the OS because he’s one of those people who shuts down all thought when they’re outside of their depth and smashes buttons. His impression of OS’s is that recovery will always be there to save you.

For a beginner, he had no business digging that deep into the terminal without reading. They were trying to speedrun using Linux with no knowledge.

And this was early in Wayland, a lot of shit didn’t play nice yet. Hell some of it still doesn’t play nice.

If his goal was to install an OS, install steam, install OBS and play some games, he NEVER should have run into most of these issues.

At the time he installed it, there was probably a dep issue installing steam from his package manager. He could have installed it one of a dozen different ways. He wasn’t intent on making it work he was intent on showing it was out of the reach of the command user.