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Do regular users `curl|bash`? From my experience that's a pretty rare occurence: stuff users need is generally in the repos
by nephanth 3y ago
Do regular users `curl|bash`? From my experience that's a pretty rare occurence: stuff users need is generally in the repos
- the_af 3y ago> Do regular users `curl|bash`? They don't (unless following instructions). But that's my point: downloading stuff and "reviewing" it is not feasible except for power users -- which are not the scenario we're describing -- and not even then! Can you tell me you trust yourself to review a non-trivial install script? > stuff users need is generally in the repos Even games? If we're talking about regular users, they'll want to play games and other things not packaged with their repo.
- amalcon 3y agoWhat's confusing here is that desktop Linux almost doesn't have "regular users". You're a power user already if you are running apt, much less curl|bash. It's not super meaningful to ask what the small number of "regular" desktop Linux users are doing; what is meaningful is to ask what they would do if they existed. Which is probably the same thing they do on Windows: use a browser to download and run whatever program claims to do what they want.
- the_af 3y agoExactly! You articulated that better than I did.
- nephanth 3y agoUbuntu has an app store (a graphical interface to apt at the time), when my grandpa was running Linux that's what we taught him to use (not often did he install anything though: libreoffice, an email client and a browser was pretty much all he needed)