Which creates more problems than solutions. If the Python version that comes with your OS is not the one you want (e.g. it's outdated), then you'll have to: 1

Which creates more problems than solutions. If the Python version that comes with your OS is not the one you want (e.g. it's outdated), then you'll have to: 1. Install the version you want anyway, and all the tools required (that usually don't come preinstalled in the OS) 2. Try to not make them collide, which, last time I tried, was a PITA, because the OS depends on original version of Python being in the the $PATH or something. Python on Ubuntu is notoriously misleading for newbies, because even if you apt install python3 and it tells you that it's already installed, it's not fully installed. For example, venv is not installed, you have to `sudo apt install python3-venv` and do that for every Python module that's not installed by default. It would be easier if Linux didn't come with Python, and then people simply installed the actual, full version of Python they wanted.