Maybe it's something you don't care about, but for a lot of people being a quick reboot away from having a working system after a bad update or upgrade is very useful.

We're going to see lots of angry slashdot conservatives commenting soon here about how this is politically biased against them and how certain they are that global warming is a hoax. Will this article set a new 2021 record for most comments?

This is confusing: "One of the oldest and most renowned distributions of Linux has been released!" Presumably it means "The latest version of one of the oldest ...."

It's been installed by default in debian since stretch (2017). You can configure it via the gui or https://wiki.debian.org/Unatte...

Just curious, how on earth do you do "root" stuff then? Sometimes you just have to be root so how do you do that without sudo? Is that secure?

So I'm not going to give you too much flack, I'm just going to say it's unlikely that your means of privilege escalation is as safe as sudo, even with this bug. I suppose it's possible to do all sorts of complex stuff with setuid bits and captive utilities, but sudo is going to be way more secure and more easily logged to trace back to who did what (if you care about such things).

The kind of people that don't recognize (or stop) an operating system upgrade are the same kind of people that need to pay Geek Squad to replace their hard drive and reinstall the OS and applications -- at a price that's likely close to the price of buying a new low-end computer.

Nah, then you'd see an increased network usage. This is probably just Firefox's fsync bug repeated: in order to ensure data integrity, SQLite has a mode that fsyncs on commit. (After all, if the data isn't written to storage, it isn't really committed.) If you combine that with autocommit after every minor transaction, you get a ton of fsyncs and massive data usage.