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Q&A Is it a bad idea to pipe a script from curl to your shell?

Online, I often see someone tell people to run a command like /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)" (example from https://brew.sh/). The g...

2 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Stephen Kitt‭

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Q&A Best practice for splitting data between a fast and slow drive

If I had a fast drive (SSD) and a slow one (HDD), what parts of my Linux system should go on the fast one?

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A How do I keep track of configuration changes?

Occasionally I ask how to do some configuration, and people tell me to do stuff like edit some config file in an XYZ directory. But if I configure everything this way, it will turn into a mess, and...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭