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    [–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    He has a point tho. The amount of copy pasting random shit from the internet into the console is way too comon if you go down the rabbit hole on some issues with the system and find a solution on some abandoned by god itself linux forum. To be fair its usualy just a comand that does shit for you in 5 seconds so you dont have to use gui buuut it does happen and i can tell what this stuff does but the average user likley dosent . Alghtough it might be less common today. Its been quite a long time since i last broke my system.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I mean, I never do that without downloading the script and reading it. I also read makepkg files. It doesn't take that much to validate these things

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

    He wasn't say you personally do it. He even said that he knows what the commands do, most of the time, but that the average person does not. Especially beginners to Linux, who are more prone to break their system and be on forum rabbit holes to try and fix it.