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What’s Debian based on again? I think it was some earlier variant of Ubuntu

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[–] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why debian installer is bad? Literaly press okay to almost everything and you got installed

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can't disable root and tasksel may be confusing to some.

[–] TheInsane42@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why would you want to disable root?

Remote root login is disabled by default, local root disabeling is useless anyway, as when you have acdess to the physical system you can break it open anyway.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because sudo exists and is way better for so many reasons.

[–] TheInsane42@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

It's a better way, but not fool proof. I always keep root available for console login. (Saves booting from external media when there is an issue) For the rest, sudo is perfect though, but it doesn't replace root login in 100% of the situations.