This stupid hack exists because Linux is so fragmented it's impossible to distribute software easily in any other way. That and most Linux distributions are si

This stupid hack exists because Linux is so fragmented it's impossible to distribute software easily in any other way. That and most Linux distributions are significantly harder to deal with both technically and administratively than Apple or Google app stores. Fix these problems and curl pipe bash will die. But here we have the usual sort of nonproductive advice you get from security people: shaming with no thought to underlying causes and God forbid we try to improve anything.