A Steam Bug Deleted Someone's Entire PC [video]

by hexmileson 1/22/2024, 7:45 PMwith 3 comments

by azornathogronon 1/22/2024, 9:38 PM

Note that though the video is new, the bug happened 9 years ago in 2015. And I'm pretty sure it was fixed quickly, though I didn't immediately find the fix commit when I had a cursory glance at the github issue, because there were so many drive-by comments from the time to wade through.

by tmtvlon 1/22/2024, 8:51 PM

Yeah, that's the problem with water cooling: when things go wrong you get a steam explosion and your PC is just deleted.

by hulituon 1/23/2024, 5:32 PM

Is this the famous "installation bug", when the program sets the root of the filesystem as the "installation folder" ? Happens a lot.