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- Embed this notice@malwareminigun What is snap except a packaging format? (That's also exclusive to Ubuntu, even distros derived from Ubuntu typically don't use snap)
You can also ship static binaries in an rpm or a deb, how do you think Go and Rust applications are packaged?
And curl|sh has the following core issues:
- HTTPS provides no authentication, you're just downloading things from the net at random, this is very different from adding repository keys
- Can't uninstall things properly or at least be sure that they are
- Good luck making sure that updates work properly and are done in a timely manner with using a homegrown solution
Didn't even Windows graduate from accepting to launch random binaries and require signatures?