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How A Steam Bug Deleted Someone’s Entire PC (iv.datura.network)
submitted 8 months ago by Dehydrated to c/linux_gaming
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[–] Dehydrated 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's not clickbait. The Linux version of Steam consisted of a binary, as well as a script called steam.sh which could be used to launch Steam. There actually was a line in that script with a comment above it saying # Scary!. The script was not supposed to rm -rf the entire hard drive, but if something went wrong, exactly that happened.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Didn't say the content was, the image itself is clickbaity.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Well, it's not if it's the actual code Steam shipped with on thumbnail.