Quoting: XeekeiDoes this mean that there won't be any DirectX support in Source 2? Or did you just exclude that since Linux users wouldn't really care about that?

Hopefully no DirectX support.

If they focus their attention on OpenGL support, it'll work across all platforms, and not just Windows.

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Quoting: DrMcCoySure, rm won't remove /bin, etc., but it will recurse into them. It won't delete any file owned by root, but it will still go through your whole system and delete all files your user has rights to.

So yes, afterwards, your operating system will most likely still work. But all your personal data is gone.

Which is, actually, way worse. You can always reinstall your operating system, but your personal data is unique. You will need to have a backup for that.

Apropos backup: if you backup your data onto an external drive and it is still mounted, that's gone too then.

If ever we need a reminder about the importance of not storing backups on an always mounted drive (and the importance of doing a backup), i think this is it.

In regards to your way worse comment, in a single user system, i agree that its way worse... But in a multiuser system, if rm had the super user power, it'd nuke everything belonging to every user on the computer. Without the ability to harm files belonging to root and other users, fortunately the damage is limited to just one user and any shared files.. Which, i will admit, is not very comforting to that user. It'd also, sadly, destroy any cloud services that sync to that user's folders too.

What i don't understand is why this happened. I mean, i'm a beginner when it comes to bash, i can make very simple scripts and that's it. And even i can see the problems with this particular script.

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Quoting: DrMcCoyNo, --preserve-root doesn't help here (and it's enabled by default in many distributions already).

They're doing
rm -rf $STEAMROOT/*

Note the *. Which, when $STEAMROOT is empty, expands to

rm -rf /bin /boot /dev [...]

--preserve-root is completely okay with deleting that.

Correct me if i'm wrong, but as long as Linux security is correct and you are not running as root, rm can't touch /bin /boot /dev, etc... Can it?

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At least Linux is not obsolete like Windows is.

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Quoting: Ivancillo

Quoting: BomyneThis is why I only buy games on Steam... Let the Steam client do the installing.

You seem to not really understand what the topic really is.

GoG supported Linux games are easy to install. That's not the problem.

The thing is about those Windows games that still wern't supported in Linux by GoG but Linux users try to make so by manually extract the assets and running another alternative Linux game engine.

Think about gemRB, scumwm or such.

I run two versions of Steam on my Linux box. The native version, that is responsible for my Linux installs. That version is not the version I am referring to.

The version I am referring to is the one located in a Crossover bottle. My statement still stands. Steam, running under Crossover (Wine) manages the install automatically for me. I have had great success with running Steam in this way, and I do not have to deal with encryption and DRM. Steam manages that... For the most part. Still no luck with UPlay games.

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This is why I only buy games on Steam... Let the Steam client do the installing.

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Quoting: BeamboomThey should just stop local storage of save-files altogether, and put all saves in the Steam cloud - at least make it a global option. it's just hassle to store stuff like that locally.

No. Local storage should continue... but all games should sync to the Steam cloud.

But to be fair... We are linux users. It's not hard for us to setup links ("ln -s" command) from the save locations to our dropbox folder. We don't need our hands help like Windows users.

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A gaming platform with no windows support? I like I like.

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Quoting: ntfwc

Quoting: BomyneAccording to Wikipedia, linux was released 5th of October 1991... So i'm a little confused.

I believe he is going by the announcement date:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux#The_creation_of_Linux [External Link]

Ah. That does make sense. Thank you.

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According to Wikipedia, linux was released 5th of October 1991... So i'm a little confused.

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