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Is it pointless to buy the Affinity Suite and try get it running on Linux?
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this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2025
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It's just bad practice to even post such a thing. Especially with an influx of new users to linux, it appears so often it makes it seem like that's normal behavior.
It's like....a gun salesman handing a purchase to a customer barrel first, finger on the trigger. Like yeah, it's not loaded, nothing is going to happen, but that's just terrible practice.
ok, yes, i suppose i should not have mentioned the scripts without attaching a warning.
i'm still grateful though that someone put in the effort to write 'em, because they finally solved a problem for me that i couldn't solve for years.
i guess now it's "the communities" turn to properly document and dissect those scripts for the larger user base.
i'm certainly not angry with whoever wrote those scripts because he didn't put in even more effort for free.
but i do get your point (i think) and agree.
Oh yeah, not putting any blame on you, just agreeing with the person above.
On a related note, it's not even good practice to copy/paste commands directly from the browser to a terminal at all, because it's possible for unicode/js tricks to completely override what you think you're yanking to your clipboard. So copy/pasting a curl-to-bash is a double whammy of bad practices.
I much prefer the practice of stating plainly, "here's a script, consider it an example, make sure you read it first, and run it at your own risk".