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Steam on Linux: Deletes everything on uninstall?

Postby Zancarius » Thu Jan 15, 2015 6:49 pm

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam- ... ssues/3671

Apparently the offending code is this bit as discovered by a HN poster.

Windows users are apparently not immune to this either; depending on Steam's installation location, it can potentially delete everything in the folder it was installed to (although with the limitation that it's almost never installed in that manner).
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