• ranzispa@mander.xyz
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    2 hours ago

    Cool, but to be fair Linux is made to not make you root.

    In most cases a sysadmin somewhere is root, and you may only pledge to him by email and wait weeks for when he decides you waited long enough for a reply.

    User permissions are quite strict in Linux.

    I’m still pissed there is no way for a user to decide to open a shared folder to other users which enforces base permissions without root doing that.

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      14 minutes ago

      Mind you, on my own Linux machine I can become root while on Windows all I can be is someone with admin rights (but subordinate to SYSTEM).

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      20 minutes ago

      Yea, it’s a completely different security model, due to coming from Unix (a multi-user system) while Windows started as a single-user system.

      Windows is user-centric security, Linux is file/process-centric.

      Linux is arguably better, but it also requires more management.