[ale] Linux Distributions

[Marvin Higginbottom,]

Michael B. Trausch wrote:

> Running as root, is bad.  Period.

Yes.

My mother and my sister share a computer they use for the various 
internet thingies moms and sisters do, and it's a windows XP box.

Until I set it up so I was the only person with an "administrator" 
account, and gave them "limited" accounts, their computer would get 
hosed with trojans, viri, spyware, and other malware constantly- and I 
had to go up there and fix it for them every few weeks.

Now they have to ask me to install stuff for them, but their computer 
has been virus/trojan/malware free since I took this step.

And running even a "limited" windows account is way less secure than 
running a linux user account.  There's every reason in the world to not 
run as root (or even "admin" under windows), and no reason in the world 
to justify it, as anything you could concieveably do with your computer 
can be done from a user account- even if you do have to occasionally 
rely of "sudo" or some other form of switching to root user to do this 
or that.




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