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lpln3452 | 4 months ago

`curl -fsSL https://tinyurl.com/2u5ckjyn | bash`

This satire is amusing. Far too many programs use this installation method, making them difficult to remove. Seeing this is an immediate deterrent to installation.

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IshKebab|4 months ago

Don't blame the program authors; blame the Linux community for completely failing to agree on a better alternative.

lpln3452|4 months ago

Admittedly, a distro agnostic equivalent to the PKGBUILD or Nix Flakes would have been great. But it's hard to excuse them when so many better alternatives are available. Even apps that could easily be built into a single binary use these odd installation methods.

And while Flatpak gets a lot of criticism, I honestly think it's far better than these `script| bash` methods.

Velocifyer|4 months ago

you can use <a href="https://brew.sh/">homebrew</a> or flatpak