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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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  1. …has been around for years now without any action being taken to resolve it, a little frustrating): https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3492
    comment by Hydraulix989 · 2017-04-17 · in Nvidia's Hackintosh Support Is an Insurgency Against Apple's Computers
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    “There are over 2,000 open issues.” – Steam for Linux's GitHub bug tracker
    story by luzvioleta · 2017-04-03 · 0 comments
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    Steam deleted everything on system owned by user (2015)
    story by mrkgnao · 2017-02-05 · 1 comment
  4. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
    comment by taspeotis · 2017-02-02 · in Ask HN: We've all been there, what was your big stuff up?
  5. …more worried about the game doing something accidentally bad to my system than deliberate hacking: https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671 By the time serious hacking is an issue through Steam, I'd expect containers…
    comment by jerf · 2016-08-07 · in Steam in Docker
  6. …kernel implementation of cgroups, naming spaces. But it would still help in preventing such bugs as https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8896186
    comment by arno1 · 2016-08-07 · in Steam in Docker
  7. Bug: https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8896186 I regularly reference the # scary! comment at work.
    comment by _asummers · 2016-08-07 · in Steam in Docker
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. …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
  11. …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
  12. 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
  13. …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
  14. …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
  15. >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
  16. …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
  17. …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
  18. …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
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    Moved ~/.local/share/steam. Ran steam. It deleted everything owned by user
    story by stkhlm · 2015-01-15 · 268 comments
  20. 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
  21. …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