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Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 583

is there really any benefit to not running as root?

yes from your same post

desktop applications still prompt regardless of that setting.

when you run as root not only can do you anything to your system, so can any application that you run. any malicious program can do anything to your computer it wants when you aren't running as root, it has to ask your permission first

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