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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THANK YOU! I was hoping someone would notice!
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.
I didn’t know about it and it’s hilarious
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 /
I believe only if you symlinked a specific folder.