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.
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.
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.
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)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 /