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Subject: Re: Distros specifically designed for children
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 22:22:25 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 21 May 2025 13:47:52 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

But many including PCLinuxOS which I use are able to have a full 
root
> account not easily accessed and services available to users are easily
> set with a GUI.
> 
> bliss- Dell 7730 Precision- PCLinuxOS 2025.05- Linux 6.6.91- Plasma
> 5.27.11

Ubuntu is bizarre.  Just go to their help site and search for topics like 
run as root, create root, or admin access, etc... and in instance after 
instance after instance the only responses you will see are admonishments 
about using root.

Why do you need to use root?  Only experts are allowed to do that.  If you 
have to ask why Ubuntu doesn't allow root accounts, you aren't smart 
enough to use it as root. Anyone without a college degree related to 
computer engineering, in some fashion, doesn't have the intelligence 
needed to operate Ubuntu as an admin.  

I just assumed the distro was created for children who are just learning 
to use Linux.