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by neuropie 3610 days ago
At a guess it's to sandbox the Steam ecosystem? There was a Steam bug in the past where it would delete all contents of the user's home folder. I guess also Steam and its games are all closed source and people might not trust them as much.
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Bug: https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8896186

I regularly reference the # scary! comment at work.