• redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.comEnglish
    111·
    1 year 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.

    • TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      1 year 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.

      • nick@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        1 year 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.

  • Ananace@lemmy.ananace.dev
    2·
    11 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)

  • Zanshi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year 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.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year 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 /