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[-] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 63 points 2 years 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.

[-] NoXPhasma@lemmy.world 84 points 2 years ago

That was not Linux Mint but Pop! OS.

[-] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 12 points 2 years ago

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

[-] haych@lemmy.one 9 points 2 years ago

In the same series Luke was using Mint on his rig

[-] TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years 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.

[-] Redex68@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years 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

[-] nick@feddit.de 2 points 2 years 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@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Machefi@lemmy.world 56 points 2 years ago

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

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

THANK YOU! I was hoping someone would notice!

[-] carbotect@vlemmy.net 20 points 2 years ago
[-] Xeelee@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago
[-] Sheltac@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago
[-] webghost0101@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

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

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] Sheltac@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Seconded, this looks cool

[-] Krompus@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years 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@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago
[-] azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Zanshi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years 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.world 16 points 2 years 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@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I believe only if you symlinked a specific folder.

[-] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 2 points 1 year 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)

[-] Deurman@feddit.nl 0 points 2 years ago

Eyo what?! ๐Ÿ˜‚ That reminds me of that issue Linus was running into with Pop_OS! where Steam would delete is DE.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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

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