I just installed 11.6 (Bullseye) on a VM. Before I start using it for its intended purpose, I thought I'd take the opportunity to experience a new install as a new user, just to see what they might experience.
When given the choice of what software to install, I unselected Gnome and selected Cinnamon, and left the others at their defaults (blank except for first (desktop) and last (standard tools) options).
When I booted into Cinnamon, I found the "Software" GUI. I can run "Aptitude" all day long, but the GUIs I've tended to leave alone.
So here's my question. When in this "Software" GUI, I hit the search "magnifying glass" icon in the upper-left corner, and searched for "rust", expecting to find Rust-programming-related items. It only found the one item of "Process Viewer". Even after I enabled "contrib" and "non-free" (didn't think that'd make a difference, but thought I'd try). Are these GUI front-ends for "apt" that broken? Or just this one? Or am I doing something wrong?
Just curious; I can always use "aptitude" to do what I want, but if I was a newbie trying to use this GUI to install "rustc", I'd be at a loss.
Thanks!