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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
    11·
    9 days ago

    Sure – but would they then respond to a prompt reading…

    And then typing out that full exact phrase? I might do that, but only expecting/understanding that I may fuck my OS.

    • 8uurg@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 days ago

      A layman would think: I am installing steam, I want to install steam. What do you mean potentially harmful? Steam ain’t a virus. I have no clue what pop* is and what it does. -> do as I say.

      While the prompt is perfectly adequate for those that are technically experienced enough to recognize it is about to uninstall your desktop environment, that isn’t the case for someone who doesn’t know what their desktop environment is. Especially since there is an expectation that installing software does not break things (but, because shared libraries are shared more often than not in Linux, it could!)