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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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 89 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was not Linux Mint but Pop! OS.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're right. I somehow remember it as Linux Mint.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

In the same series Luke was using Mint on his rig

[–] TheFrogThatFlies 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Redex68 24 points 1 year 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] 2 points 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.

[–] rtxn 27 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Sheltac 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The text is in a different spot. We can recreate it.

[–] rtxn 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] Sheltac 1 points 1 year ago

Seconded, this looks cool

[–] Krompus 12 points 1 year 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.

[–] NoXPhasma 10 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I didn't know about it and it's hilarious

[–] Zanshi 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 17 points 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 /

[–] AProfessional 4 points 1 year ago

I believe only if you symlinked a specific folder.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 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] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] rtxn 3 points 1 year ago

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