bruhduh to [email protected] • 2 months agoIt do be like thatimagemessage-square22arrow-up1463arrow-down114cross-posted to: linuxmemesmemes
arrow-up1449arrow-down1imageIt do be like thatbruhduh to [email protected] • 2 months agomessage-square22cross-posted to: linuxmemesmemes
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•edit-22 months agoBecause that’s the home of root the su command is used to switch user
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•2 months agoRoot’s home has been /root on every distro I’ve ever used ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-22 months agoConsumer distros vs enterprise systems would be my guess I’m from the RHEL branch
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•2 months agoBut “/root” has kinda always been the root user’s home directory, not the root directory /.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•2 months agoIt hasn’t. That’s a fairly recent (1990’s) innovation.
Why’s your
$HOME“/”?Because that’s the home of root the su command is used to switch user
Root’s home has been
/rooton every distro I’ve ever used ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Consumer distros vs enterprise systems would be my guess I’m from the RHEL branch
But “/root” has kinda always been the root user’s home directory, not the root directory
/.It hasn’t. That’s a fairly recent (1990’s) innovation.