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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I have no idea about Linux, but I cannot imagine using Windows without admin access, and have not done so in all the years I've had personal computers. Can you even update Calibre with an ordinary user account?
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That's where the UAC popup comes in in newer Windows versions. Or using sudo to run a Linux program. Or the administrator login in MacOSX (MacOSX also uses sudo for terminal sessions). You may need admin access for a specific task and it's descendants so you grant admin privileges for a limited task and then they disappear. Admittedly, it's taken a lot longer than I expected for Microsoft to come to grips with the least privilege concept.
Going back about 30 years, I was playing with Linux v0.12 (?) I accidentally mis-typed rm -rf ./ by leaving out the '.' so instead of deleting all files and directories below the current directory, I started removing everything from the root of the file system down. I had to regenerate both floppies that I was booting and running Linux from.