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by aequitas 1796 days ago
"The terminal" can be really abstract or frightening (eg: you can remove all files without them going to the trash) to use even for programmers. I've had lots of colleagues that just copy-paste oneliners from a file without understanding what they do, to do their job and be fine with that.

> your profile and current shell

What is my profile in this case? What is the current shell? What even is a shell?

A better way would be to ask the user if they want this step to be done for them as part of the installation process. As first-time users will often have to install Brew just to get started on the learning curve of terminal usage.