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Subject: Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome
Date: 2 May 2025 20:33:44 GMT
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On Fri, 2 May 2025 15:03:01 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:

> For someone who was new, I didn't even know what these mysterious files
> were!  They just were yellow circles with faces, like a emojie with
> croses for eyes and I think a tongue hanging out, as if dead.  Or a
> bomb.  They just appeared on the filesystem and could be large.

I think it might have been SUSE but if you ran as root the background 
changed to a red field with big black smoking bombs like the ones seen in 
cartoons. 

I think Ubuntu was the first distro I ran into where root sort of 
disappeared.