ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux
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Issue tracking for the Steam for Linux beta client
71 mentions on Hacker News by 63 people: 8 stories, 63 comments · first 2012-12-20 · latest 2026-04-16
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Also in the case of programs running rm -rf. Like what happened with the Linux version of Steam: https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
comment by Reedx · 2016-04-14 · in Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code -
https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671... rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"* When $STEAMROOT was empty, "steam apparently deleted everything owned by my user recursively from the root directory. Including my 3tb external drive I…
comment by sillysaurus3 · 2016-02-22 · in Linux 4.5-rc5: efivarfs fixed to avoid “rm -rf /” bricking UEFI -
…recently too "Moved ~/.local/share/steam. Ran steam. It deleted everything on system owned by user" https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671 Honestly (and imnsho) the prevalence of that sort of thing makes it even less…
comment by matheweis · 2016-02-15 · in What Happened: Adobe Creative Cloud Update Bug -
…could have cutting edge testing following every industry best practice and still miss this bug. [1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
comment by michaelt · 2016-02-15 · in What Happened: Adobe Creative Cloud Update Bug -
https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671 is a nice motivating example of why I think this project is useful
comment by lihaoyi · 2015-08-16 · in Beyond Bash: Shell scripting in a typed, OO language -
…steam bug [1] for example. There are other nasty quirks too, it's really hard to unf ck bash. [1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671...
comment by leni536 · 2015-08-12 · in Stronger Shell -
…and escaping rules (which can be a huge pain themselves), can easily lead to bugs like this one https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671 . I have written some bash scripts myself, but none that were longer than maybe…
comment by realharo · 2015-08-12 · in Stronger Shell -
>the recent but on Steam Linux that erased your hard drive... Link to said bug: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
comment by desdiv · 2015-07-27 · in Steam hit by major security breach -
…is restarted. Not many details yet but it sounds similar to the Steam bug [0] from last year. [0] https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
comment by kevan · 2015-03-24 · in Bug 1202858 – Restarting squid results in deleting all files in hard-drive -
…different language - even for purely/mostly personal use, in which case Haskell would be fine. [1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
comment by comex · 2015-01-30 · in Use Haskell for shell scripting -
…he looks like the Rolfe Gruber in the Sound of Music… Personal attacks won't help your case. [1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671 [2] https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi... [3]…
comment by mmastrac · 2015-01-16 · in Interview: Lennart Poettering -
Will not buy, HL1 is still full of bugs: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues?labe... They should at least fix the bugs which affect gameplay, so I won't end up with a library of broken games.
comment by brokenparser · 2013-05-10 · in Half-Life 2 released for Steam on Linux -
…that they're using GitHub for issue tracking, although there's no actual code in the repo: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues
comment by avolcano · 2012-12-20 · in Steam for Linux Beta is now open to the public