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Oh this is balderdash. Firstly if it's curl | bash you actually do have the choice to download the script before running it and review its contents.

Secondly most software on Linux is not installed this way - it's installed through the distro's package manager, flathub, Steam etc. where it actually is way more vetted than a random download. Of course you can install random downloaded appimages etc. if you want as well because this is Linux and it doesn't treat you like a child in a sandbox, you own your system, you do what you want with it.

Which gets to my last point - the software which is installed through curl | bash is generally targeting developers and frankly, as a developer, you should know what you're doing. You take the risk where the risk is small (on your throwaway dev VM), you vet & review the code first where the risk is real (on a production server or something).

Your comment was counterfactual nonsense




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