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It's entirely possible to disable passwords on Linux. Use root as your account, and enable autologin in your display manager.
In fact, you should definitely do it, OP.
or, slightly less dangerous if really one is allergic to typing sudo passwords, create a file with
username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALLin it in /etc/sudoers.d.Open needs to remove french from their OS and not preserve the root (of all lies about password usage):
sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /
(do not run this)