Only the OGs will remember when Steam would sometimes rm -rf /* your system. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
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Don’t forget that time when installing steam on Linux Mint would prompt you to uninstall gnome, and Linus (of Linus Tech Tips) got burned because he didn’t read the confirmation message.
That was not Linux Mint but Pop! OS.
You’re right. I somehow remember it as Linux Mint.
In the same series Luke was using Mint on his rig
Today on Linus Drop Tips: how to drop your ENTIRE DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT
Are you kidding me!? To move forward he had to write that he knew what he was doing! I’m pretty sure he saw the train wreck happening and pushed forward for views.
He was doing it while recording a video with his phone, literally installing steam as the first thing on his PC, he didn’t expect anything like that to even be possible. He probably thought “ugh whatever just finish this download already I don’t care about your permissions”
Plus he only had to write “yes do as I say”, he didn’t read what came before.
Here’s the moment when it happened: https://youtu.be/0506yDSgU7M?t=609
I wouldn’t accuse him of doing it for views (he gets enough of those), but he is just not much of an expert when it comes to software in my opinion.
Cropping the text to the torn photo? Have my upvote!
THANK YOU! I was hoping someone would notice!
Eyo what?! 😂 That reminds me of that issue Linus was running into with Pop_OS! where Steam would delete is DE.
That was a bug in APT. Iirc, it thought that every package was conflicting with Steam.
Let me tell you about Bumblebee and their issue #123, though that one’s even worse seeing as installing system packages are done as root.
(Their install/update commands included
rm -rf /usr /lib/nvidia-current/xorg/xorg)Edit: Please stop posting stupid image memes or unhelpful messages. This interferes with Valve’s ability to sift through the noise and see if anyone can figure out what triggers it.
Huh, did it really do that? I remember installing steam for Linux as soon as beta was available but never had this happen to me
It explains in the GitHub link.
There was a line of code:rm -rf “$STEAMROOT/”*
If you remove the definition of $STEAMROOT, then it appears to be interpreted as rm -rf /
