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I don't want to sound arrogant but is reading a few paragraphs then copying and pasting 3 different commands into a terminal really that difficult?
It will make life easier in the long run as having a repo added will update the software with sudo apt upgrade in the future.
Gotta consider users on windows download random programs and blindly follow an installation wizard.
"follow an installation wizard" <-- I know people just out of uni (having completed BTech), who can't even do that. Keeping that in mind, I can have way more patience towards OP.