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At a guess it's to sandbox the Steam ecosystem? There was a Steam bug in the past where it would delete all contents of the user's home folder. I guess also Ste
by neuropie 10y ago
At a guess it's to sandbox the Steam ecosystem? There was a Steam bug in the past where it would delete all contents of the user's home folder. I guess also Steam and its games are all closed source and people might not trust them as much.
- _asummers 10y agoBug: https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671 https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8896186 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8896186 I regularly reference the # scary! comment at work.