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    I did the classic blunder today (feditown.com)
    submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 60 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    You're in good company. Steam even managed to do it for a whole bunch of people:

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

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

    I remember this lol, to be fair no one knew how the guy managed todo it, because steam(the launcher) has checks for that, they assume the guy tried to run the steam command instead of clicking the launcher(don't do that)

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    Holy... Fuck... That is scary AF!

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    and THAT, children, is why I run steam in a jail. Fuck the idea of giving access to my home folder or anything else under my user...

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    Firejail?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    yes, and I know it's less than perfect, but it's better than nothing :)

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    Makes sense.. I was curious what your solution was.. Sounds like I should invest some time into that .. Thanks.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

    On debian testing (trixie):

    $ cat bin/steam-jailed.sh

    #!/bin/sh
firejail --private=/home/user/steamjail --profile=/etc/firejail/steam.profile ~/steam $1

    Sometimes an update breaks something, and I have to experiment with the profile settings, for which it helps to launch a bash with the same jail and start steam on the command line inside the jail to see output messages.

    #!/bin/sh
firejail --private=/home/user/steamjail --blacklist=${HOME}/.inputrc --profile=/etc/firejail/steam.profile bash

    What happens most of the time is that a steam update depends on a newer system library that I didn't yet install and I then have to do a system update - steam is shit at managing OS dependencies (i.e.: it doesn't)

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Dude!! The is awesome! Thank you so much!

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

    Did you get it running already? If so, happy to have helped :) It's a bit tricky to move your downloaded games into the jail so that you don't have to re-download, I think maybe it's just easier to download them again as you start playing them. I started with a jail right from scratch so I only ever tried moving my games files between different jails, that was easier (but can still be done wrong).