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Originally Posted by bellalugosi
Thank you for the link ebook-viewer in Linux - problem running as root. It helped setting the environment variable so that the viewer will show up as root, as it always was. Qt5, so many things...
And by all gods, why do always - if you say you run a system as root - the educators come out of their caves waving their fingers. I said I have my reason isn't thst enough?
I do it fir 20 years now, nothing ever happened, the computer is for nothing but playing around, has no internet, no one has access to it. And guess what, I know about backups.
For every reason you say it's dangerous there is a method to fix it. So just leave those noobs alone with their silly and ridiculous root access.
Thank you.
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The main issue for me is that it encourages bad habits. What I do on my computers at home tends to be reflected in how I manage the computers at work. Not using root on Unix/linux is a good habit much like not using an administrator account on MacOSX or Windows. Save root/administrator for when you need that level of access. Login as an enterprise admin when you need that level of access, use a standard account to check your email or join in a video session or other normal user level activities.