• fmstrat
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    14 months 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.

      • fmstrat
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        14 months 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.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          14 months 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
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            14 months ago

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