On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 20:39:35 +0000 Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> wrote:
[snip] > > Please do not encourage Gene's fetish of running GUI apps as root. > Plenty of people have been wasting their time trying to tell him not > to do that for years now, and the last thing they need is bystanders > handing him a different bore of firearm to aim at his foot. > I understand not running, say, VLC as root. But Synaptic? It allows you to search, install and remove packages. Two of those things can't be done without root permissions. I absolutely run it as root. Apparently the broader dictum is "never run GUI apps as root". Why? What's special about GUI apps versus those you run in a terminal? Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: http://quillandmouse.com Software Projects: https://gitlab.com/paulmfoster
