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Newbies never listen... (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 1 month ago

True, but not actually the reason, it's because Debian doesn't discourage the use of the root account, and su is used instead of sudo.

[-] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Really? But why?

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

Because if you have sudo, you have root. Side effect of being a server system, too. During install, if you specify a root password, sudo is not installed. If you don't, it is. Ubuntu just defaulted to the latter.

[-] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago

So that is why I always have to install sudo manually 🤦.

And I think older versions also left you at root, you had to define a user account manually. I think that's not the case now as I recall (I haven't installed Debian in a while).

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

Yea I switched from Ubuntu on my past few installs to avoid snaps. Glad I did, basically the same experience.

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