Installing Steam on Elementary OS While Elementary OS is based on Debian/Ubuntu, newer versions of Elementary don't automatically have the application required to open .deb files.

Opening a .deb file on Chrome OS Canary (source) On most Debian-based Linux distributions, users can double-click on .deb packages to install them.

The easiest way to install Linux apps on Chrome OS these days is to find what’s known as a Debian file — a special kind of installation package that ends in a .deb extension.

The latest release, Debian 13, codenamed Trixie, released on Aug. 9. This latest version features numerous updates and introduces some notable changes. Perhaps the one alteration that will hit ...