Linux Best Practices

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I'm around 20 years Linux user and I'm still installing various soft by curl bashing a script from their site.

Trusting official installation instructions from the software developer might be a step or two down from trusting your distro's package maintainers, but it's still several steps up from trusting random advice from a forum or chatroom.

And with the possible exception of Ken Thompson or Ben Eater, we've all got to trust somebody.