My fresh Debian install didn’t have that too and I thought it came with the installation

Backups before doing anything else with partitions (or OS in general)

Or just use Debian. Ubuntu is based off it

I’m not your (future) buddy, (future) pal!

I’m not sure why you are being downvoted but I agree with you. Helping them set up the first time makes their transition to Linux smoother. I just had someone’s laptop prepared with the steps you outlined in your previous comment and left them on how to install flatpak apps. They said they want to learn more beyond flatpak and genuinely interested how to learn to install the distro themselves.

apkmirror for me. havent had any issues so far