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Linux Best Practices (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by alphacyberranger@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] Gremour@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm around 20 years Linux user and I'm still installing various soft by curl bashing a script from their site.

[–] gendulf@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 4 points 1 year ago

At least it doesn't start with sudo, lol.

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trusting official installation instructions from the software developer might be a step or two down from trusting your distro's package maintainers, but it's still several steps up from trusting random advice from a forum or chatroom.

And with the possible exception of Ken Thompson or Ben Eater, we've all got to trust somebody.