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  • Lt Raspi 4 3 4 32 bit, how do I give root permission to run GUI app

    From Vincent Coen@21:1/5 to druck on Fri Jun 24 14:56:56 2022
    Hello Jan!

    Friday June 24 2022 14:17, druck wrote to you:

    On 21/06/2022 13:43, Jan Panteltje wrote:
    I do notice Chromium is much faster as root
    I am always root, I am the sys adm so to speak ;-)

    I think someone has already called you an idiot, I'd like to second
    that, just in case anyone should read than and not realise what a fundamentally stupid thing it is to do.


    Usage of root or for that matter su or sudo other than for special purposes (i.e., not often) is NOT recommended as it allow you to make serious mistake with the system including but not limited to deleting the entire system very easily.

    You should only be using your user name for all general purposes and only do sudo if you need to run a system function that usually insists of running as root.

    No application should be working quicker as root over your normal user account and if it is you need to check system settings for it and if needed uninstall it and then re-install and see if that makes a difference.

    Personally I would not trust Chromium an inch as a normal user but would never trust it as root.

    The same applies to chrome - even less so.

    Linux is, a secure system providing it is used correctly.

    Same applies to Windows, you would never work in windows as administrator
    other
    than for installing software that you "know" where it comes from and even then run anti virus tool/s against the installer first.

    Also, despite what some like to think, running 32 bit O/S on a 64bit system reduces speed but that does depend on exactly the application and for many it would not be noticeable unless doing lots of calculations but that is not the only instance.

    The biggest reason for slow processing is :
    1. Using a SD card as your storage.
    2. Using a HDD connected to the USB 2 port.
    3. Same as 2, but using a USB 3 port including using a SSD.
    4. Using a slow SSD say for a Pi 4 on a M.2 connection where you could have a faster SSD and a better M.2 type interface.

    Above allowing for the fact that a Pi 4 is not that fast to start with but better than older one's.

    Remember the old saying, if you pay peanuts you must expect to get monkey's, the same applies to computers.


    Vincent

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@21:1/5 to Vincent Coen on Mon Jun 27 17:48:22 2022
    On 24/06/2022 03:56, Vincent Coen wrote:
    You should only be using your user name for all general purposes

    Lets look at that statement. Lets in particular analyse the use of the
    word 'should'

    What does 'should' actually mean.
    "should

    c. 1200, from Old English sceolde, past tense of sceal (see shall).
    Preserves the original notion of "obligation" that has all but dropped
    from shall."

    Old English sceal, Northumbrian scule "I owe/he owes, will have to,
    ought to, must" (infinitive sculan, past tense sceolde), a common
    Germanic preterite-present verb (along with can, may, will), from Proto-Germanic *skal- (source also of Old Saxon sculan, Old Frisian
    skil, Old Norse and Swedish skola, Middle Dutch sullen, Old High German
    solan, German sollen, Gothic skulan "to owe, be under obligation;"
    related via past tense form to Old English scyld "guilt," German Schuld
    "guilt, debt;" also Old Norse Skuld, name of one of the Norns), from PIE
    root *skel- (2) "to be under an obligation."

    Ground sense of the Germanic word probably is "I owe," hence "I ought."
    The sense shifted in Middle English from a notion of "obligation" to
    include "futurity." Its past tense form has become should (q.v.).
    Cognates outside Germanic are Lithuanian skelėti "to be guilty," skilti
    "to get into debt;" Old Prussian skallisnan "duty," skellants "guilty." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Is it really a debt he owes not to use root?
    Is it a crime? An abnegation of a duty?
    Has he signed a blood oath 'I shall not use root' ?

    C'mon Mr Coen. Think about what you are casually tossing into the
    conversation here, a legal and moral obligation to not use root?
    I think not.

    If God had not meant us to use root privileges, he would not have made
    it possible...

    Only 'woke' people use 'should' to avoid explaining why...its simply a
    lazy appeal to some unnamed authority to explain why ones man's bigotry
    should be imposed upon another.

    Please try harder

    --
    “The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the
    urge to rule it.”
    – H. L. Mencken

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