I must be missing something, everytime I try to do something I end up wasting a day to get something to work unreliably. Seemingly simple apps that ought to onl

I must be missing something, everytime I try to do something I end up wasting a day to get something to work unreliably. Seemingly simple apps that ought to only require the most common dependencies (such as dotnet/ie) are a nightmare to setup for me. Every other time I try to do something the dependencies fails to download or there are bugs preventing stuff from installing. What am I missing? Maybe games happens to bundle most they need themselves?