What are some of the easiest ways for a beginner to make their system untable when they start tinkering with it?
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once you have some experience under your belt, these are non-issues:
curl | sudo sh)That's the only part I disagree with. Software not updated in a long time can easily become a risk.
Everything else though, spot in.
aimed at beginners who confuse “hasn’t been updated for a year” with “hasn’t needed to be updated for a year”
Looking at it from that standpoint, you're onto something on that as well.
I'll admit that I've done this with a few things that I wanted to install but weren't in my repo...