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    [–] rtxn@lemmy.world 96 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Throwback to that time when Steam for Linux would sometimes rm -rf /* your computer. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671

    [–] lemminer@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I can't believe this happened! Now I'm more interested in seeing those memes people posted on the issue.

    [–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    It was mostly LTT memes since it happend to him on video

    [–] rbits@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    No that was a bug with the linux package manager when he was trying to install steam, steam wasn't the issue

    [–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Are there tools like pusshift for Lemmy already or why can you see a comment I deleted directly after posting it?

    [–] rbits@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

    Doesn't look deleted on my instance

    [–] octalfudge@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

    I never knew this existed. This is amazing and hilarious, thank you for sharing this!

    [–] rikudou@lemmings.world 7 points 1 year ago

    Love it! rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"* - what could possibly go wrong?

    [–] IUsedTo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Remember when it happend to LTT?

    [–] rtxn@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    yes, do as I say

    But this isn't what happened. For Linus, it was a bug with APT that made it uninstall the entire desktop environment.

    [–] IUsedTo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

    Uh, I didn't know that actually.

    [–] MavTheHack@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I've never seen so many comments on a gh issue before

    [–] BolshoyToster@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

    You should see some threads linked on github-drama, there were >1000 comments when audacity tried to add telemetry.

    [–] SnowFoxx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    It did what?! Holy crap, I've never heard of that. Guess I should be less lazy and run a backup more frequently.

    [–] Chadus_Maximus@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    If you uninstalled ROTMG when it first launched, it would delete everything from your disk.