• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    We used to do that a lot, in the 90s and early 2000s. We determined that that’s not a good idea. People even ran DEs under root.

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      6 months ago

      I’m not saying to run everything as root but most of the reasons given for sudo are bull. This blog post makes a good job of debunking them.