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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 95 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Throwback to that time when Steam for Linux would sometimes rm -rf /* your computer. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671

[–] IUsedTo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Remember when it happend to LTT?

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

yes, do as I say

But this isn't what happened. For Linus, it was a bug with APT that made it uninstall the entire desktop environment.

[–] IUsedTo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Uh, I didn't know that actually.

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