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She is right, using 0 index for physical stuff is stupid.

Yes they are presented in the programmer wrong. The first thing in memory should have offset 0 and index 1

Oh the big lebowsky part, i dont get it either

Its like saying bank robbery is against bank’s gun carrying policy.

Sure its true, but thats not really the problem being addressed. The massive, notorious security vulnerability is.

tldr tar | head -n 1

People here saying you can just download and run the .deb just like the .exe

Aren’t you forgetting the “add +x permission” step?

Yes people would assume you have curl. Curl is often used to install programs. And curl is definitely one of the things that can do malicius things this way. So you are right to be hesitant to use commands that you don’t understand. Most Linux users have forgotten how hard it is to learn the first stuff with no preaquired knowledge.

If you have googled “what is curl and how is it used” you may have found some relevant info.

I have given up on Linux because installing was hard in the past

There are some tools that make installing software easier. Like “appimage” files that are single files that (after you make executable) are completely self contained.

Flatpacks and snaps have an “store” like experience.

.deb files are also sometimes simple (also need to be made executable) (depends on the distro)

Unfortunately there is no .exe file experience.

Are you suggesting to a new user to build from source when he can’t run a couple of commands?

don’t expect browsers to block ads out of the box

Nextcloud can be selfhosted