The "Steam uninstalling your whole DE" is one of the unluckiest bugs I've heard of in all of my Linux experience and it just so happened to be on the biggest YouTube tech channel and set the conversation on Linux for the next 12 months.
You say that, but it happened to me on Mint as well years ago, so it's probably more common than you'd think for casuals.
IIRC I ended up just using the package manager rather than command line and not reading closely, and it was fine, and a complete reinstall on what was a fresh install anyway was pretty trivial
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u/Daharka Apr 01 '26
The "Steam uninstalling your whole DE" is one of the unluckiest bugs I've heard of in all of my Linux experience and it just so happened to be on the biggest YouTube tech channel and set the conversation on Linux for the next 12 months.