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by cavoirom 16 hours ago
but people pipes a shell script from a URL to bash all the time. with enough practices, it becames second nature.
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True enough... but even then, you can download and review the script before running. Usually it just detects your OS/Distro and then downloads and runs the appropriate installer. You can also do this by hand.

For that matter, there's always a risk of downloading/installing anything from anywhere. There have been successful compromises of many application supply chains at this point in official release paths. You will accept some risk regardless of your approach.