TwilightKiddy

How did we arrive at networking? I feel like we are on two completely different pages.

I was talking about your regular end user machines, what we usually call "desktop computers". They are connected to the internet, but I don't have any way to remotely login into those. And I have a single person per computer. There is no need to disable root passwords on these, seeing that Larry executed a command as root won't provide any insight, I know that Larry is the only person who uses the machine. And it can complicate things in a sense that if Larry fatfingers his password three times and gets locked out, I'll have to get into his filesystem somehow and remove tallies manually instead of just logging in as root and doing faillock --reset.

So, we are clearly talking about different environments here. Of course I would not have a password for root in an enterprize setting where you have a lot of different people managing one machine. But for your regular desktop computer with one user, it just complicates things needlessly without providing any benefits.

Maybe I'm a bit ignorant, but would it make much of a difference? Whether I authenticate with my own account to get root permissions or directly with root, I still have a string of characters which I use to get root priveleges on my machine. For a single (physical) user machine, that allows me to use a separate password for root. Should be better than using the same one twice, right?

Have you heard of su?

Helix? 😢

As a hopeless Gentoo user myself, I must warn you: it's very addictive and it will become your one and only hobby, whether you like it or not.

For the love of all that's saint, can we please stop recommending Manjaro to people, especially newbies?

It's not really a preference thing, Manjaro team did plenty of questionable stuff with it, as in DDoSing AUR, mind you, twice, or letting their server certificates expire, also more than once.

It also routinely shows more stability issues that led to the infamous "I swear to god, if it's Manjaro again..." in AUR discussions. Apart from AUR problems, they also shipped alpha quality things to their users, like this and this.

I've used Manjaro myself for around a month. If you are treating it as a regular Arch installation, you will break it.

If you want something up to date, but more stable than Arch, just use Fedora. If you insist on it being Arch-based, use something like CachyOS. Or you can read the wiki and install Arch itself. Arch is a DIY distro, after all.

If I encounter subs with positioning, my brain generates far more happiness hormones than I ever should be allowed to have.

That's a completely different tool, though, no? I just do this for determining when I need to clean up:

df -hx tmpfs

Gives me enough information for this purpose and, again, does not require any additional software, df is part of coreutils.

I call this part "shut up, tin can, I know what I'm doing".

Sometimes you just don't care about these 42 files find couldn't access. If I don't have permissions to read them, I'm not interested!

Yea, I love du -hd 1 | sort -h when cleaning up. I absolutely love that I don't need any extra software to quickly locate whatever takes up space. I can do this on any machine without installing anything extra.

No.