Tim via users composed on 2023-03-20 20:28 (UTC+1030):
Felix Miata:
If the superuser can't do something, how can a mere mortal user be expected to do same? When the superuser determines *everything* works as expected is time enough to create the first regular user.
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Set up an ordinary account for yourself, and always use that. Set up ordinary accounts for other uers. Do everything, and test things, as an ordinary user....
That account would be root. I've been using Linux for well over 3 decades. I've had a subscription to at least one Fedora mailing list for as long as Fedora has existed. I have several dozen PCs, each of which, except for one laptop gifted me that I haven't altered, is multi- multiboot. Only a small handful include Windows. Average installations on each is well over a dozen, with over 50 on at least one. I am their only user. Only one filesystem exists on each for mounting to /home, and all installations mount it. Most installations are used for: 1-testing upgrade processes 2-testing alpha/beta installers 3-bug report QA 4-support for users in various forums where particular hardware is typically relevant to identifying problem solutions that typically involve procedures requiring superuser write access
Everyone who reports use of root user doesn't need yet another lecture instead of an answer to a question asked.