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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.

    [–] [email protected] 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

    [–] [email protected] 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.

    [–] [email protected] 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.

    [–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Cropping the text to the torn photo? Have my upvote!

    [–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

    THANK YOU! I was hoping someone would notice!

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

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Seconded, this looks cool

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Its a great one.

    [–] [email protected] 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.

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

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

    [–] [email protected] 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

    [–] [email protected] 16 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 /

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    I believe only if you symlinked a specific folder.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 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)

    [–] [email protected] 2 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.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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