That's what you get for using Ubuntu
this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2026
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"Just a prank bro!"
"typo" :D
What do you mean? Hitting space while typing out a path is very much a typo. Am I missing something?
They're jokingly implying it was intentional
yeah you missed the joke i guess
Explain the joke! ;-;
"hahaha ubuntu users take this"
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
Another classic
Jeez. Didn't hear about that one, back in the day.... wow.
rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"* could be evaluated as rm -rf "/"* if $STEAMROOT is empty
Ah, good times.