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At the bottom is <https://xkcd.com/1654/>, which is actually pretty funny.

It should really be ; instead of & though, otherwise the first failed install method will stop the rest of the script from executing

That's &&

& runs the thing in the background. So this is running all the commands in parallel.

You're completely right, sometimes I feel like Bash syntax is as impenetrable as regex.