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Ok, this is for all the Linux geeks of the world: get the hell out of my use of root.

Argument #1: This is my computer, not yours.  I don’t have the slightest interest in your opinion of how I use my own computer.

Argument #2: I’ve been using Windows with “root” auto-login for fifteen years.  Number of virus infections: 0  Number of spyware infections: 0  Number of hacker breakins: 0  Number of accidental catastrophic modifications: 0  Why?  Because I know what I’m doing, that’s why.

If you don’t know what you’re doing and need someone else to hold your hand to keep you from breaking your own computer, that’s fine.  But keep your ineptitudes out of my computer.  Kindly desist all restrictions for the use of root.  If you must throw in warnings for the newbies, fine.  If you absolutely have to, even keep root usage out of the GUI dialogs and make me edit the config files manually.  But for the love of God, don’t hard-code restrictions into the system itself.

Linux is about freedom, right?  Then get your kiddy leashes the hell out of my computer and let me use it the way I want to.

Thank you.

I now live in Morristown, Tennessee, USA.  Again.

Huxley was right.

(At least in the Western, “developed” world.  There are plenty of places that haven’t given up on Orwell yet, though it would seem that Huxley is what awaits them once they are “free”.)

-  George Carlin

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