[johnchristopher]

> Most of these support tickets will require holding their hand through basic Linux box administration.

Yeah, customers can be so dumb.

https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671

rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"*

Now, don't get me wrong. I have a dedicated win10 partition for gaming. I gave up that fight a long time ago.

[ben509]

You're not helping your case by pointing out the platform's standard practice for installers is to use a language from the '70s that makes it trivial to write "rm -rf /", and (as that ticket indicates) the command will carefully work its way through all connected devices, including external drives.

[johnchristopher]

You are not helping your case either by pointing out a dev's inability to handle a well documented language with known pitfalls that has been in use since the 70's.

If they can't write bash scripts there are a lot of options to install, update and remove software with built-in fail-safes.

[kazinator]

That language also makes it trivial to make a safe wrapper function for "rm" which validates the arguments and prevents accidents.

[shrimp_emoji]

I game mainly on Linux (since most games interesting to me happen to be on Linux).

Valve has been and is doing a lot of work to expand Linux support. I wonder where Linux gaming would be today without them.

[jtms]

I thought for sure SteamOS and the various Steam Machine “consoles” would create a critical mass, but it seems to just be going considerably slower than I would have predicted. I’m hopeful, but I don’t see the economics adding up right now

[linuxftw]

Critical mass starts with you. If you want to play video games on Linux, support developers and games that you can plan on Linux.