There's also the fact that it's easy to display something in the browser other than what is pasted into the terminal[1]. That said, if you say "just run apt-get

There's also the fact that it's easy to display something in the browser other than what is pasted into the terminal[1]. That said, if you say "just run apt-get install foo" people will just copy that instead of the curl command. 1: http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste