Why would you ever want to do 'curl please-pwn-my-computer-so-hard | bash'?
There's little practical distinction between piping a shell script from a random site or downloading a binary from it.
Installing a package manually vetted by distribution maintainers, signed and verified with GPG, is the same as blindly running a random script off the internet?
I don't think you appreciate how much effort Linux distributions invested into creating safe ways of distributing software.
`/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/in...
`\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash`
https://www.npmjs.com/package/nodejs-oneline/tutorial
`curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup | sudo -E bash -z`
It is a trend. I can find more examples, the above is just places I remember seeing this behaviour.