I don't think the general population may not know not to delete certain empty folders just because they're there. But i got that impression from Windows when i saw them named a certain way under subfolders for programs I installed in the past.
By the way. If you think about it. This information should scare people. I need the awareness of these potential risks so I don't do anything stupid to my computer. If I'm not scared, I'll risk breaking my computer.
like, if you're going to break your PC at least do something epic, breaking it because of some crappy third party package or doing a dist-upgrade is weak sauce
i accidentally used DD to clone 1 disk over my running system disk, was kinda spectacular that i got away without any data loss (thank you backups) and watch GNOME slowly die i went like "huh this dd is taking longer than usual" followed by immediate black screen with the blinking prompt
Because last time I was on Windows I had this fucking annoying ddl error for video content that wouldn't go away. it was effecting all of my MakeMV burned videos. I would try to play one then Windows would say it can't fine. I check the folder they are clearly there.
i can give you a good example runescape had a new native linux client they didnt update it for years, so long so that installing it required you to install an old library from ubuntu 16.04 which had security issues. this gave rise to the community run flatpak version just so that people would not install a library that could break a future system update or crash other applications if they found the old library version on a newer system.
I want to get into docker as well, I had installed on Linux Mint. But I didn't even get a chance to fully use it. and then I lost that one too after i installed Bazzite OS.
idk what the current situation is but i know they updated the package a few years back now, but people already moved to the flatpak before i quit the game anyway
i knew most of the people working on the flatpak anyway as they were old contributers to the linux version of the java based client (essentially a launcher with linux specific fixes to the official java client)