The average non-technical user is never going to open up the terminal and run commands. The well educated technical user is going to be vary of untrusted sites and various forms of attacks (which I'm assuming the author of this post falls under).
IMO this is good advice for those that fall in the middle of these two categories, i.e. slightly technical people who run into problems and copy-paste solutions from Stack Overflow hoping that something will work.
> you’re not running some random shell script from a random author
This is exactly what is happening in the vast majority of these cases. These users are going to be vary if linked to an executable or installer, but "hey just run this simple line of code" sounds like a very appealing solution.
IMO this is good advice for those that fall in the middle of these two categories, i.e. slightly technical people who run into problems and copy-paste solutions from Stack Overflow hoping that something will work.
> you’re not running some random shell script from a random author
This is exactly what is happening in the vast majority of these cases. These users are going to be vary if linked to an executable or installer, but "hey just run this simple line of code" sounds like a very appealing solution.