It seems to be increasingly the case that package managers just don't have some software - or have a version that's years out of date. Perhaps the number of different ones available has become self-defeating.
Directly sudoing a curl-ed script is like running a binary on Windows with admin permissions and with Defender turned off, which makes it somewhat more scary to me.
On Windows I use Chocolatey when I can, and if I can't (or it looks dodgy anyway) I'll either just not install it or try it in a sandbox. Things that aren't choco-able are generally commercial software obtained from the vendor's download page, we theoretically trust those things somewhat. YMMV.
> Directly sudoing a curl-ed script is like running a binary on Windows with admin permissions and with Defender turned off,
Most people would just say yes to any prompt they get, those wise enough not to aren't running random curl scripts either.
As for Defender being any kind of protection, I have my doubts.
> it seems to be increasingly the case that package managers just don't have some software - or have a version that's years out of date.
This is entirely distro dependant, some are very up to date and have most things you'd want, especially if you include the likes of AUR in that. But then there's usually a Flatpak or an AppImage that you can use in the odd case that they don't.
Directly sudoing a curl-ed script is like running a binary on Windows with admin permissions and with Defender turned off, which makes it somewhat more scary to me.
On Windows I use Chocolatey when I can, and if I can't (or it looks dodgy anyway) I'll either just not install it or try it in a sandbox. Things that aren't choco-able are generally commercial software obtained from the vendor's download page, we theoretically trust those things somewhat. YMMV.