bruhduh to [email protected] • 2 days agoIt do be like thatimagemessage-square21arrow-up1422arrow-down112cross-posted to: linuxmemesmemes
arrow-up1410arrow-down1imageIt do be like thatbruhduh to [email protected] • 2 days agomessage-square21cross-posted to: linuxmemesmemes
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-21 day agoBecause that’s the home of root the su command is used to switch user
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•1 day agoRoot’s home has been /root on every distro I’ve ever used ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-22 hours agoConsumer distros vs enterprise systems would be my guess I’m from the RHEL branch
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 day agoBut “/root” has kinda always been the root user’s home directory, not the root directory /.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•24 hours 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.