Anno domini 2024 Wed, 29 May 08:30:20 +0200 Thierry de Coulon via tde-users scripsit: > > > if you want to find out whether anything bad will happen by running > > > Konqueror as root, then we will save you the time and trouble, and say, > > > yes, sooner or later, bad things happen. > > I always find this sort of declaration a little exagerated, and funnily no one > ever seems to answer: "why?" Easiest scenario: Some programs use $USER to find their config file location. You run that program as root. Now you have a problem that you don't know about. > To me there is little difference between running an app with sudo and running > it as root. If I need to do a lot of work as root, I just log in as root (and > I've set up the root desktop with ugly, flashy colours so that I know I'm > there). Letting you login as root with a GUI is a nice thing of TDE. > > Of course no one should "live" as root (although I did that for one year when > learning how to use Linux, but that was not a "production" machine), but why > make people believe that as soon as they are root, they are doomed? > > People live as root on Windows machines and while this is a dangerous thing, > bad things don't always happen. > > I just feel that this "never run Linux as root" is some religious mantra, and > who does not respect it is an heretic. Oh ... this is how flame wars started more than 20 years ago :) Remember Bastard Operator From Hell? http://bofharchive.com Nik > > Thierry > ____________________________________________________ > tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
