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Valve's changelog for the Steam client dated January 19 includes the fix for the Linux-related screwup.
Silviu Stahie notes at Softpedia
it might have deserved more than just an entry in a changelog, but we'll have to settle with just that.
"Fixed a rare bug where Steam could delete user files when failing to start"
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(Score: 1, Troll) by Hairyfeet on Saturday January 24 2015, @12:51AM
Then quit fucking babbling and nut up or shut up. Step right up folks and watch another FOSSie fail by refusing to take the simple, easy, and free Hairyfeet Challenge! The reason why they refuse is simple, they know that thanks to Torvalds and co treating Linux like their own playtoy something as simple as updating the OS will cause the OS to SHIT ON ITS OWN DRIVERS, something not seen on the Windows side since...drumroll...windows ME! So if you actually have some balls instead of just a big fat mouth, step up and prove to the world your OS is "ready for the desktop" by taking the challenge!
Take ANY mainstream consumer oriented (not LTS, because even Ubuntu advises against mainstream users using LTS) from FIVE years ago, this simulates a 5 year typical lifecycle. This BTW is less than HALF a windows support cycle, so I'm cutting linux a break. Lets say you use Ubuntu, that would be Ubuntu 9.10 and can be downloaded from their archive. Install it on ANY PC, desktop or laptop (NOT VM as that isn't real hardware and comes with special drivers) that has a wireless card. Wireless is required because more and more mainstream users are ditching wires and nobody wants a laptop that doesn't have wireless, do they?
During this phase you are the system builder so CLI (which is usually required because Linux driver support is poor) IS ALLOWED. Once its installed you are no longer the system builder but THE USER, so like a windows user you are ONLY allowed to use the GUI. You then get to "enjoy the freedom" of using nothing but the GUI (because if you can't even update the thing without CLI you're no match for windows are you) of updating to current...with ubuntu that is EIGHT RELEASES, just FYI. You will film this and post it to youtube, you only have to upload the final install process of each release and a pic of the device manager showing working hardware complete with wireless showing WPA V2 connection, but the complete video should be hosted on dropbox to prove you aren't faking it.
BTW in case it isn't clear working hardware means WORKING HARDWARE, it does NOT mean wireless that can't use WPA, it does NOT mean a PC with no sound or VESA video, it means FULLY WORKING HARDWARE and again if you are unclear please see the highlighted areas as completing the challenge REQUIRES vids of the final install of each upgrade (last I checked that would be EIGHT for Ubuntu, and around SIX for most others, be sure to have room on your SD Card!) along with a 5 minute video of the end of each install showing that upon completion you could go to hardware manager and had 100% functional hardware with NO FUTZING. After all if you have to futz with the thing just to have functional drivers it isn't on the same level as Windows now is it? BTW the first Windows that passed the challenge was Win2K (RTM to EOL with ZERO failed drivers, 10 years of support) WinXP (14 years, ZERO fails) and both Vista and 7 can go from RTM to current with ZERO failures. So lets see them snappies, otherwise you are just throwing yet more bullshit, which if you want bullshit see "many eyes" (which gave us such well vetted code the world lost billions on heartbleed and will probably lose billions more on stopping the current BASHing...what quality!) or again what all the anecdotes guys like you throw around lead to, the ever popular lies [tmrepository.com], damn lies [tmrepository.com], and the tao of bullshittery. [tmrepository.com]
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(Score: 2) by tibman on Saturday January 24 2015, @04:39AM
I would love to install windows, drivers, and updates without restarting 18 times. 2K and XP required floppies to install on raided system. It was silly to keep a functioning floppy drive until 2010 (or whenever you upgraded to Vista/7). Vista shipped with terrible standard hardware support. Just plugging in a standard usb optical mouse would result in errors. Windows is still fragmented into 32bit and 64bit binaries. Even windows 7 shipped two dvds, one for 64bit and one for 32bit. You can't update the default web browser (IE) without upgrading the whole OS (service packs). You haven't mentioned windows 8 so i'm guessing you've side-stepped this latest version. Hopefully 10 is more to your liking if that is the case.
In regards to CLI, i would also love a windows server that didn't require a graphics card to run. Why does my web server need a graphical user interface at all? Because they never cared for nor designed a proper CLI. Every time i have to log into a production machine that is borked and some run-away process is consuming 100% of the CPU is a lesson in patience. The windows process scheduler doesn't seem to care and dedicates only a sliver of CPU to the freaking admin who is trying to navigate the painfully slow rendering UI to fix a problem. Windows might be perfect for you but it is far from perfect. But you're right, i've never had an issue with wifi on windows.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 24 2015, @04:41AM
Install, sit back and go. Worked fine on my Dell laptop, no command prompt.
Maybe you're just not as good with computers as you think you are.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday January 24 2015, @06:33AM
I didn't bother to read any of your response, since it is obvious that you have set up you challenge to prove what you want it to prove. I am sad that you can not look beyond your corporate masters to a life without slavery. It is somewhat worse that your livelihood depends on the slavery of others to your masters. I weep for you, Hairyfeet, seriously and sincerely. Software is a new thing, it is a disruptive technology in the best sense, and if it surpasses your test, well, okay, But just because you are economically tied to the horse-buggy economy that does not mean that we have to be. And besides, you have a rep here now. It is not my fault, it is yours. I suggest you attempt to remedy it.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Hairyfeet on Saturday January 24 2015, @06:55PM
ROFLCopter, you are saying that having your fucking Operating System UPDATE is beyond the capabilities of Linux? Because THAT IS ALL the test shows, that simply updating the system causes Linux to shit on itgs own drivers thanks to Torvalds using a shitty 70s throwback drivers model.
So there ya have it folks, asking Linux to fucking UPDATE is "rigging a test" because hey, Linux don't need no stinking security right? And folks wonder why Linux is getting bitchslapped with Heartbleed and Shellshock, LOL!
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(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Sunday January 25 2015, @08:28AM
Could you repeat this, perhaps using different words? I am not sure I understand what your point is. Thank you, in advance!
(Score: 1, Troll) by Hairyfeet on Sunday February 01 2015, @12:47AM
I'll spell it out, okay? 1.- Linux CANNOT update itself without shitting on its own drivers, something Windows has not had to deal with since Win9x, 2.- The Hairyfeet Challenge is a test which simulates 5 years of ownership, 3.- A typical Linux distro will go through between 6- 8 releases in that time, shitting on itself all the way, Windows does not require a biannual deathmarch just to get security patches so this doesn't happen, 4.- At the end of the challenge, which again does NOTHING but simulate the average 5 year PC lifecycle, Windows will be running with 100% functionality while Linux will be a broken pile of shit that will be lucky if it has anything above VESA, working sound and wireless will be nothing but a fairytale.
Clear enough? A modern version of Linux is more brittle, buggy, and fucked up than ANY OS made by MSFT in the last 14 years, in fact I can take a copy of Windows XP RTM and take it all the way through to EOL, that is FOURTEEN YEARS of security patches and SPs and it will STILL have 100% working drivers, while your average Linux distro falls apart less than a third into the way. Just try to take Ubuntu from the first release to last without having to do multiple reinstalls and see what a broken pile of shit you get. the test proves this beyond ANY doubt, FOSSies get their panties in a wad because I refuse to buy their bullshit and drink their koolaid so rather than admit this is a serious issue that requires fixing? They accuse me of "rigging the test" like I can somehow magically get into every repo on the planet and break their precious disk ISOs.
So if you wanna buy cultish bullshit based on lies? Go right ahead, delude yourself all you want but the last OS by MSFT which Linux could legitimately say it was a contender was Windows ME, everything since then can update without dropping a load in its pants, linux cannot.
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(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Sunday February 01 2015, @03:48AM
Sorry, I still don't see it, Hairy! What are you on about? Life-cycles of PCs? I have the same tower case I have had for fifteen years, but I would hardly say it is the same PC. And comparing Linux to what MS has produced in the last fourteen years? Hardly fair, since I have not used Windows for the past twenty. Not saying I am still using a 1.9 version Linux kernel, but you know, my machine works. I have no problems with any drivers, although I have in the past, wait a minute, my ancient first generation AMD 64-bit Athlon laptop does have a card reader in it that I have never been able to use! I have been waiting more than a decade for the manufacturer of that to release some specs so there could be a Linux driver, but this is the point: Linux driver problems are not the fault of the free software community, they are the fault of companies claiming proprietary hardware and firmware, whom I suspect are often on the payroll of (or being threatened by) Micro$oft. I don't think that anyone thinks that you are rigging your "challenge" in the way you seem to think that someone thinks you are. In fact, you sound rather paranoid and desperate! I hope things work out for you. Windows 10 being free should be a great help, since you will have a lot of people needing help. Of course, they may not want to pay so much for it, when they can just get another copy of Windows.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Hairyfeet on Monday February 02 2015, @02:53AM
Then step right up and do the challenge and post it to dropbox, of course you won't because you can claim works for me [tmrepository.com] which in reality always ends up if you actually talk to the person for awhile to be works for me (but not really) [tmrepository.com] but when rubber actually meets the road and you offer an actual test? All you get is anecdotes and bullshit.
You see if I claimed that an Intel Atom beats a core i5 would YOU just take my word for it, especially when I refused to offer a single shred of proof other than "I say so"? Of course not, you would want some kind of evidence to back up my claim...that is ALL the Hairyfeet Challenge does, it simply simulates a 5 years lifecycle of your average PC. The reason I chose 5 years if I got fucking tired of FOSSies whining "Its not fair to hold Linux to a Windows lifecycle (even though we claim its a Windows replacement), Fuckbuntu/Minty Mouthwash/Elementary dear watson wasn't out 10 years ago and THAT isn't fair!" so I simply split the test in half, if your OS can't even do HALF of what Windows can it really isn't in any way compatible, is it?
But I bet my last dollar that you are looking through rose colored glasses and if you were to be REALLY HONEST with yourself there has been plenty of times that the biannual forced deathmarch [tmrepository.com] which is REQUIRED by every distro just to get the latest security patches BTW, have taken a big steaming dump on the drivers and you've had to "Google for fixes" or "Open up bash and type" a bunch of bullshit that had to be tweaked because it was written for rev foo, update bar and Linux is soooo damned brittle that if its rev foo, update bar+1 the damned driver won't work (a consequence of using the 40+ year old Bash GUI as a crutch by bad coders) which Windows users? They just do not have to deal with that horseshit. I can grab a box out the pile, install XP RTM and the drivers and then update it aaaaalllll the way to the last patch, that is THIRTEEN YEARS worth of security patches...know how many drivers will be broken at the end? NONE, that is how many will be broken, not a damned one.
So if you aren't just blowing smoke? Quit posting the same anecdotes and bullshit and lets see the video. Takes less than 3 hours start to stop, 100% free, and will provide undeniable proof of whether your distro of choice can do what you say or not. the info is below, I look forward to seeing the proof which I know you won't do because the few that have tried have all had to admit defeat, which is why the challenge is celebrating its eighth year unbeaten.
Take ANY mainstream consumer oriented (not LTS, because even Ubuntu advises against mainstream users using LTS) from FIVE years ago, this simulates a 5 year typical lifecycle. This BTW is less than HALF a windows support cycle, so I'm cutting linux a break. Lets say you use Ubuntu, that would be Ubuntu 9.10 and can be downloaded from their archive. Install it on ANY PC, desktop or laptop (NOT VM as that isn't real hardware and comes with special drivers) that has a wireless card. Wireless is required because more and more mainstream users are ditching wires and nobody wants a laptop that doesn't have wireless, do they?
During this phase you are the system builder so CLI (which is usually required because Linux driver support is poor) IS ALLOWED. Once its installed you are no longer the system builder but THE USER, so like a windows user you are ONLY allowed to use the GUI. You then get to "enjoy the freedom" of using nothing but the GUI (because if you can't even update the thing without CLI you're no match for windows are you) of updating to current...with ubuntu that is SEVEN RELEASES, just FYI. You will film this and post it to youtube, you only have to upload the final install process of each release and a pic of the device manager showing working hardware complete with wireless showing WPA V2 connection, but the complete video should be hosted on dropbox to prove you aren't faking it.
BTW in case it isn't clear working hardware means WORKING HARDWARE, it does NOT mean wireless that can't use WPA, it does NOT mean a PC with no sound or VESA video, it means FULLY WORKING HARDWARE and again if you are unclear please see the highlighted areas as completing the challenge REQUIRES vids of the final install of each upgrade (last I checked that would be EIGHT for Ubuntu, and around SIX for most others, be sure to have room on your SD Card!) along with a 5 minute video of the end of each install showing that upon completion you could go to hardware manager and had 100% functional hardware with NO FUTZING. After all if you have to futz with the thing just to have functional drivers it isn't on the same level as Windows now is it? BTW the first Windows that passed the challenge was Win2K (RTM to EOL with ZERO failed drivers, 10 years of support) WinXP (14 years, ZERO fails) and both Vista and 7 can go from RTM to current with ZERO failures. So lets see them snappies, otherwise you are just throwing yet more bullshit, which if you want bullshit see "many eyes" (which gave us such well vetted code the world lost billions on heartbleed and will probably lose billions more on stopping the current BASHing...what quality!) or again what all the anecdotes guys like you throw around lead to, the ever popular lies [tmrepository.com], damn lies [tmrepository.com], and the tao of bullshittery. [tmrepository.com]