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It do be like that(lemmy.world)

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kungen@feddit.nu
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Why’s your $HOME “/”?

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Forester@pawb.social
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Because that’s the home of root the su command is used to switch user

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xthexder@l.sw0.com
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Root’s home has been /root on every distro I’ve ever used ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Forester@pawb.social
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Consumer distros vs enterprise systems would be my guess I’m from the RHEL branch

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kungen@feddit.nu
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But “/root” has kinda always been the root user’s home directory, not the root directory /.

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XTL@sopuli.xyz
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It hasn’t. That’s a fairly recent (1990’s) innovation.

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