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Steam might wipe out your home directory!
sub Jan 16, 2015
Under certain circumstances Steam can delete
all your user data in your home directory.

No, this is NOT a joke!

https://twitter.com/Donzanoid/status/556055040239370241
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
Xpander Jan 16, 2015
now im scared to open it up :D
i have symlinked library paths also :)
tony1ab Jan 16, 2015
http://www.neowin.net/news/moving-the-steam-folder-on-linux-is-causing-users-entire-file-systems-to-be-deleted


this. Please make a new on the site of this. Visitors should be aware, not only forum readers.
sub Jan 16, 2015
Quoting: tony1abhttp://www.neowin.net/news/moving-the-steam-folder-on-linux-is-causing-users-entire-file-systems-to-be-deleted


this. Please make a new on the site of this. Visitors should be aware, not only forum readers.

Yeah, I agree. I think this is an important news.
Well, it *could* be that many news sites are afraid to
write anything severely negative that might upset Valve.
And in this case it's even just a warning to the users.

At least /. (quite ironic, isn't it?) covers it. :D

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/15/01/16/1429201/steam-for-linux-bug-wipes-out-all-of-a-users-files
ntfwc Jan 17, 2015
Well, that does make me feel better about taking the time to make sure my games run on dedicated accounts. Bash scripts can be easy to mess up.
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