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Umm guys... (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by gogosempai to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have been using Linux for 3 years,

And I just learned this from your comment

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's kind of great, because root is not intended for regular users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How can that be true when nearly every command asks for root, including regular system updates? E.g: Sudo apt-get upgrade

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's what "sudo" does, it basically means run this as if you were logged in as root.