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by progval 2051 days ago
`curl | sudo bash` is for the non-technical people who may have just sshed into a server for the first time. If you don't put it front and center, they will be lost.

The experienced sysadmins such as you and I can skip the paragraph and find an alternative we like.

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Non technical people are not going to run terminal commands to install software.
We were all non-technical people once, and many of us learnt by doing just that.
If you're setting up a home server, particularly on something like a Raspberry Pi, which they mention, then you're already "slightly technical," and should know about the terminal.

Indeed, for many people setting up a home server might be the first time they're dealing with the terminal. So this is a "non-technical step into being technical."

They are, and they're going to also do a lot more worse.