Hi there!
The latest years Powershell started expansion to other platforms and now works on Windows, Linux, and MacOS (I even managed to start it on raspberry Pi Debian distro).
And nowadays the main way for installing modules is PowerShell Gallery but in some situations, it still convenient to install modules directly from the source (the main reason — the main PowerShell modules repo configured to MyGet or NugetServer).
And it can be painful to install Module from GitHub — you should download archive, find modules folder extract archive content and then copy module folder to the Powershell Profile directory.
Moreover — people like me don't want to create a separate repository for each module (yes, I like the Release-Flow approach) so download and extract only the modules you are like -it even more difficult.
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