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[โ€“] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nobody could ever execute an installer as root on a Linux system ๐Ÿ™„

Linux squashes root over ssh. An OEM could preinstall a sudo user to get around this but that kind of BS would be their death knell as a vendor.