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"Yes, do as I say!"
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This post is from 2021-11-11.
It should've been apt-get but welp.
Nah, you can't blame the user here champ.
He installed the OS, opened the default software center, and installed a package.
There's simply no way to justify what happened. I challenge you to find any situation in which installing a package from the Microsoft Store would uninstall critical system packages and also kill the entire GUI.
To be fair, there isn't an example from the Windows store specifically, because the vast, vast majority of Windows programs are installed via standalone installation packages.
But yes, there was one instance where uninstalling a game would recursively delete the parent directory, up to and including potentially deleting the entire C:\ drive.
Funnily enough, a similar thing happened with Steam as well in the past - though as long as you weren't running Steam as root it couldn't delete the whole filesystem, just any files owned by yourself (which is also still incredibly destructive, don't get me wrong).
Was it the default software center? From my memory of the video, he tried to install Steam through the Ubuntu Software Center at first which failed, and then he found a guide that mentioned using
sudo apt install steamto which apt made him typeYes, do as I sayto confirm the (unfortunate) set of actions it was going to perform.While I still don't blame Linus, a more apt (ha!) comparison would probably be trying to do something over the CLI instead of through the Microsoft Store.
The inability to install Steam i can blame on PopOS. He could genuinely don't know that you should update your system first. At the point when he typed yes, do as i say when i first watched i wanted to bang my head against my desk. He clearly didn't read what was going to happen even when the system tried warning him.
As someone else said no it wasn't installed though the software manger. It just failed to install though that way.
He went for a guide CLEARLY LABELED AS DANGEROUS MULTIPLE TIMES using the terminal with the "do as I say" command.
Tho this issue shouldn't have happened, but it happened. And was blocked for a normal install.
He just forced it through a command.
Here : https://youtu.be/0506yDSgU7M
Go check because it seems you're too lazy to search for the video