• Krompus@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    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.

  • Ananace@lemmy.ananace.dev
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    1 year ago

    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)

  • Zanshi@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    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

    • average650@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      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 /