I decided to download Scribus as a FLOSS alternative to InDesign or Publisher.

I opened it and was told I need to download GhostScript and it directed me to a site which redirected me to a GitHub releases page

Which had about ten different release versions with shorthand filenames making it very difficult to find the right version. The documentation for Scribus was outdated and gave no help

First one I tried told me to install using Command Line

didn't work

Took me 3 tries to find the GhostScript EXE which would install on my machine and then finally I had it installed Scribus stopped giving me error messages.

And this was how it took me as someone who used to use Linux and understands stuff like 64-bit versus 32-bit software.

Scribus itself has Documentation which jumps into telling me the command-line functions before how to use the GUI.