Gobble Gobble! It’s been a while since I posted here 
I have stumbled upon another Titus’s tools called Linutil. It looks “similar” to Winutil, but it’s very WIP.
It looks promising, but I am not sure how useful it may be…but if someone needs it:
Let me hear your thoughts!
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My feedback is that running this is horrific:
curl -fsSL https://christitus.com/linux | sh
Never download something off the internet and pass it directly to a shell.
I would be very skeptical of anything produced with that as the instructions.
IMHO he tries to much to pass Opinion off as Fact. Not a creator I follow nor would I want to use anything from him but thanks anyways
I don’t see the point of this utility for my own use case. For Windows, I only used his utility because it was a de-bloater of sorts and had some options for dual booting users, but that’s it. I didn’t need anything else besides that.
100%, but he isn’t exactly alone either in my opinion. It is, kind of, part of the job to be like this, I feel like.
Agreed. I still can’t get over his linux tier video. That is pure comedy
Maybe have this post to serve as a warning. I am not sure how useful this tool is. It also doesn’t help the fact that you can’t see what it is done to your distro only after the command finished running…
Exactly. An opinion is not fact. Presenting an opinion as a fact is disingenuous at best and narcissistic at worst. The dude is full of himself.
It is.
I don’t know how good this particular piece of software is or even what it does, but to be fair it’s OSS, and esp. in a one guy situation the author has no obligation to be a packager too.
Widely used software from docker over pi-hole to netdata are or were officially offering their products this way.
In this case, it is a tool that is abstracting system maintenance away from the user. If he doesn’t understand that he is recommending something fundamentally insecure, I can’t then trust his automation to be secure or appropriate.
@dalto has spoken this thread may be closed now 
What’s fundamentally insecure? That’s more or less the same security as the AUR. If you don’t even trust the installer - which you are free to inspect, then of course you should not run the software at all. But at that point we are begging the question of “Is it save to run someone else’s code?”
Downloading a script without reading it and passing it directly to a shell and letting it do whatever it wants.
Not at all, AUR helpers allow me to review what I am running before I actually run it.
Agreed, but that is convenience of procedure and not affecting actual, inherent security.
The nature of OSS: the author provides “as is”. If the installer script by the author isn’t trusted - doesn’t matter much if you pipe it directly from the net or download first - then everybody is free to review and repackage into their own delivery system.
PS: Not that I endorse anything from Chris Titus Tech (installer or locally running software).
Well, having taken a look at the screenshots both on Github and the WIP documentation [1], it’s nothing you cannot achieve manually.
WinUtil has more sense since most settings included there are hidden from the user, due to the nature of Windows. On GNU/Linux it’s not the case, unless you’re new and have no idea what to do.
I’m too scared to run the script, maybe I’ll do it on a VM when I’m bored lol ↩︎
I suspect that this is his target audience for this. Tools like this are actually the last thing new to Linux users need as it does nothing to teach them and when there is a problem they have no idea of how to fix it.
I used Chris’ WinUtil script on my Win11 machine, along with DoNotSpy11 and Wise Program Uninstaller. Certainly cleaned things up. But I don’t think there is anything on my EOS installs that I’d want to change or improve upon.