My own experience could hardly be more different. For that matter, I have never had to even look at a "flashy looking web site and follow all the instructions to the letter" in order to install something.
For example, to install yt-dlp, I followed these steps:
sudo apt install pipx
pipx install yt-dlp
Actually, only the second one, because I already had pipx (https://pipx.pypa.io/ — a wrapper for pip that does basic virtual environment management) installed.
Can you name some specific things in Python you have tried to use, and give more concrete descriptions of how you tried to set them up?
For example, to install yt-dlp, I followed these steps:
Actually, only the second one, because I already had pipx (https://pipx.pypa.io/ — a wrapper for pip that does basic virtual environment management) installed.Can you name some specific things in Python you have tried to use, and give more concrete descriptions of how you tried to set them up?