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> Most of these support tickets will require holding their hand through basic Linux box administration. Yeah, customers can be so dumb. https://github.com/val

> Most of these support tickets will require holding their hand through basic Linux box administration. Yeah, customers can be so dumb. https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671 https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671 rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"* Now, don't get me wrong. I have a dedicated win10 partition for gaming. I gave up that fight a long time ago.

shrimp_emoji 8y ago
I game mainly on Linux (since most games interesting to me happen to be on Linux). Valve has been and is doing a lot of work to expand Linux support. I wonder where Linux gaming would be today without them.
- jtms 8y ago
  I thought for sure SteamOS and the various Steam Machine “consoles” would create a critical mass, but it seems to just be going considerably slower than I would have predicted. I’m hopeful, but I don’t see the economics adding up right now
  - linuxftw 8y ago
    Critical mass starts with you. If you want to play video games on Linux, support developers and games that you can plan on Linux.
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ben509 8y ago
You're not helping your case by pointing out the platform's standard practice for installers is to use a language from the '70s that makes it trivial to write "rm -rf /", and (as that ticket indicates) the command will carefully work its way through all connected devices, including external drives.
- johnchristopher 8y ago
  You are not helping your case either by pointing out a dev's inability to handle a well documented language with known pitfalls that has been in use since the 70's. If they can't write bash scripts there are a lot of options to install, update and remove software with built-in fail-safes.
- kazinator 8y ago
  That language also makes it trivial to make a safe wrapper function for "rm" which validates the arguments and prevents accidents.

shrimp_emoji 8y ago

I game mainly on Linux (since most games interesting to me happen to be on Linux). Valve has been and is doing a lot of work to expand Linux support. I wonder where Linux gaming would be today without them.

jtms 8y ago
I thought for sure SteamOS and the various Steam Machine “consoles” would create a critical mass, but it seems to just be going considerably slower than I would have predicted. I’m hopeful, but I don’t see the economics adding up right now
- linuxftw 8y ago
  Critical mass starts with you. If you want to play video games on Linux, support developers and games that you can plan on Linux.

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ben509 8y ago

You're not helping your case by pointing out the platform's standard practice for installers is to use a language from the '70s that makes it trivial to write "rm -rf /", and (as that ticket indicates) the command will carefully work its way through all connected devices, including external drives.

johnchristopher 8y ago
You are not helping your case either by pointing out a dev's inability to handle a well documented language with known pitfalls that has been in use since the 70's. If they can't write bash scripts there are a lot of options to install, update and remove software with built-in fail-safes.
kazinator 8y ago
That language also makes it trivial to make a safe wrapper function for "rm" which validates the arguments and prevents accidents.