Scary Steam for Linux bug erases all the personal files on your PC.

[kagashe]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2871653/scary-steam-for-linux-bug-erases-all-the-personal-files-on-your-pc.html

Kamalakar

[Linuxratty]

Yup,we were discussing this on the LI forum and in the Google Hangout last night. How in the world something like this could ever happen in the first place boggles my mind.

[kagashe]

Valve investigating scary sounding Steam bug on Linux. (http://www.pcgamer.com/valve-investigating-scary-sounding-steam-bug-on-linux/)

Kamalakar

[forcecore]

very good example why i prefer run apps as portable/sandboxing. Ubuntu should make some type of "setup" support so everyone can share apps that has all needed libs included but is isolated with selectable permissions.

[Linuxratty]

Aren't they working on this with Snappy?

[ian-weisser]

Ubuntu should make some type of "setup" support so everyone can share apps that has all needed libs included but is isolated with selectable permissions.

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