I’m around 20 years Linux user and I’m still installing various soft by curl bashing a script from their site.
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Phoenix@programming.dev 10 months agoYes, but also I would have that if you have the autonomy to install linux you also have the autonomy to look up an unknown command before running it.
Gremour@lemmy.world 10 months ago
gendulf@kbin.social 10 months ago
https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install
Why is it the canon way to install rust by piping curl output to sh???
Gremour@lemmy.world 10 months ago
At least it doesn’t start with sudo, lol.
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
That’s making an assumption that a brand new Linux user knows they are running the command with superuser privileges.
Half the time you websearch a problem you are having in Linux you will find someone telling you to fix it by running a command that starts with sudo without explaining what any part of the command does. New people probably regularly run those commands without finding out what it does and it probably works (or at least does no harm) a good portion of the time because most people aren’t dicks. So then you’ve got new people trusting that form of advice.
It’s hard to blame them, they are new to the system and very few experienced users are going out of their way to explain the basics to new users.