• redcalcium
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    6311 months ago

    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.

    • @NoXPhasma
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      8911 months ago

      That was not Linux Mint but Pop! OS.

    • @TheFrogThatFlies
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      3111 months ago

      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.

      • Redex
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        2411 months ago

        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

      • @[email protected]
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        211 months ago

        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.

    • @rtxnOP
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      2711 months ago

      Today on Linus Drop Tips: how to drop your ENTIRE DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT

  • @Machefi
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    7 months ago

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    • @rtxnOP
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      3011 months ago

      THANK YOU! I was hoping someone would notice!

  • @Krompus
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    1211 months 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.

  • @Zanshi
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    311 months 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
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      1711 months 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 /

    • @AProfessional
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      411 months ago

      I believe only if you symlinked a specific folder.

  • Ananace
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    26 months 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)

  • @[email protected]
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    111 months ago

    Eyo what?! 😂 That reminds me of that issue Linus was running into with Pop_OS! where Steam would delete is DE.

    • @rtxnOP
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      311 months ago

      That was a bug in APT. Iirc, it thought that every package was conflicting with Steam.