You are going to fuck this up. Don’t come crawling back to me when you lose all your data since the dawn of time and you completely brick this goddamn computer. This is your one and only warning.

    • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      4 days ago

      Yep, they used to. SUSE actually shipped a second version (or maybe just a shortcut with some startup-option) of Dolphin to provide “Dolphin as Root”. I think this was inspired by said approach

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
    18·
    3 days ago

    this is why I moved everyone in my family to atomic fedora. This is almost entirely not a thinng there. To be fair while all of them regularly fucked up windows, only my mom ever fucked up regular linux distros.

    • AldinTheMage@ttrpg.network
      1·
      2 days ago

      I installed Bazzite and it felt so much like installing Windows for me (huge install image, slow process, lots of loading wheels and user friendly “pretty” screens to get set up). It didn’t feel great, but I figured I’d give it a fair chance and learn how to use a different setup than I’m used to.

      I still haven’t had a chance to actually do much with it (only a couple of hours between work and other stuff) but I am really interested in the concept. After reading up more and watching some videos I now understand why the install process is so big and the reasoning behind it. This type of distro really does seem like a great option for regular users.

      Only issue I’ve had so far is connecting to my RaspberryPi to control my 3d printer using the .local hostname, since flatpak apparently has a bug with mDNS. IP works fine, and I did rps-ostree install a browser, which was kind of a pain, and probably not the correct way to address the issue, but that was within the first hour or so of using it and I haven’t figured out the best way to do that type of thing yet. Really looking forward to learning more about the setup and how to customize stuff on top of it. Distrobox seems extremely powerful and sounds like it will give me everything I want.

      Still have vanilla Debian on my laptop, which I absolutely love, but using it on my desktop PC was kind of a pain due to some proprietary drivers required there (nvidia).

  • chellomere@lemmy.world
    122·
    4 days ago

    IMO an application written with a graphical toolkit and connected to a graphical server like X or Wayland shouldn’t be run as root, as these millions of lines of code that the program may use through libraries is a very large potential attack vector.

    This should be done through the terminal if you value security.

    • Ithral@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3·
      4 days ago

      You aren’t wrong, but really what are the odds the version of zenmap I got from official repos is going to be an issue? I like pretty pictures to go with my networking tools, it’s not like I leave them open after

      • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
        1·
        3 days ago

        It’s not that the program you’re running is malicious, but that it has an exploitable flaw. Because it’s a GUI app, a lot of things can touch it, which might be something malicious or something with another exploitable flaw.

    • ElectricWaterfall@lemmy.zipEnglish
      55·
      4 days ago

      They probably don’t even read what the message has to say. When I’ve helped some family members with their computer I’ve seen something important pop up and they just closed it immediately. I asked what did that message say and they said “I don’t know I just closed it.” :/

      • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
        14·
        4 days ago

        That’s usage for a non tech literate user

        They will force every block out of the way of what they want to do, and if it stops working, they call someone.

      • Ricky Rigatoni@retrolemmy.com
        15·
        4 days ago

        With modern windows error messages being absolutely useless “something went wrong :/” tier messages I can’t even blame them that much anymore.

    • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
      30·
      4 days ago

      Mac and Linux users do this too. If they didn’t then systems administration wouldn’t be a career path.

    • Jul (they/she)@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      91·
      3 days ago

      It’s nice to have a GUI for those things sometimes rather than a command line for everything. If you’re doing things right, your daily login shouldn’t have access to modify system settings or read sensitive logs. But troubleshooting requires that often and ls, vim, cat, tail, etc., can become cumbersome compared to a GUI file manager and proper GUI text editor like Kate or Gedit.

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldOP
      7·
      4 days ago

      I installed something that I got very disappointed, and wanted to get rid of it

      the script itself tried to rm something in a directory but failed, sudo dolphin didn’t work, so I found out how to delete stuff from… I think /bin or /usr/local/bin ?

      That needed me to run as admin/root so I did it. I deleted 1 file, the leftover artifact of the thing I didn’t want installed. I then stopped using dolphin as admin so that I wouldn’t break everything forever.

        • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldOP
          4·
          4 days ago

          I’m getting used to it; I customised it to my liking and it even has a terminal built in. what do you recommend instead?

          also, what do you recommend that works like VSCode for writing shit into that I never save and leave open forever, and has a search functionality on all open files that can work on any programming language I want (through compiler/interpreter and colour scheme plugins)?

    • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
      191·
      4 days ago

      Same here, but I can understand why someone might want to. For many people, even those that are comfortable on the command line, a GUI is a more comfortable experience. And, I have (rarely) needed to do some filesystem management as not my primary user account.

  • MissingGhost@lemmy.ml
    441·
    4 days ago

    How times have changed. If you have used Windows 98, you were always the administrator. Your five years old brother could actually go around deleting random system files.

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldOP
      7·
      4 days ago

      I had to come back to this message several times over the course of the day to finally understand that you mean seeing this message in the emulator dolphin while playing Mario Sunshine ups the stake of the game.

  • Rozaŭtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    94·
    4 days ago

    With this character’s file’s death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game backup to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created.