The only flaw in Corel’s logic was that as soon as you’re running Linux, you lose all desire to run WordPerfect, and develop an irresistible need to align yourself with vim or emacs…
Logged into GUI as root 🤣
The 90’s was a wild time…
Specially for people coming from windows, this was normal. The appeal of mandrake and corel and suse was this kind of graphical control panel à la windows where you needed root privileges in a graphical interface.
I myself didn’t learn about sudo until years later, and su just from debian 3.0.
Coming from Kali Linux, this is still normal
@cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca I don’t see what the big issue is…
It was a serious issue back then. People were wandering around on the Internet with root accounts. A lot of #linux IRC channels were kicking&banning anyone with “~root” or “root” ident with educational sentence like “Do not use root account as your ordinary account, check instructions”. We don’t see the issue widespread today since distros did very good intended “dark patterns” to push users to regular user accounts. Linux (or UNIX) “root” account is true god mode. E.g. infamous “rm” as root joke (!) could even affect Windows running WSL2, so MS had to implement special workarounds.
Anyone with physical access to the computer also has full file system access and could wipe everything, even without password or technical knowledge.
It’s bad for other reasons too, like a script on a website would launch as root… And also without a password if your disk was encrypted your data is protected even if someone has physical access.
It is just generally common knowledge to not run around in God mode all day, otherwise sudo wouldn’t exist.
This is running in a VM without any internet access… that will end up getting replaced by another OS anyway
Oh ya I kind of figured, I was just having a laugh 😂
Yeah if it was on a real machine or if I was connecting to the internet I wouldn’t be logged in as root ^^;
I know 😂
Please be advised that Corel Linux was discontinued in August 15, 2000. It is no longer be receiving any security patches.
@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip As I said in a previous comment this is an emulator this is running in a VM
You should really update to something actively supported.
(My original comment was mostly a joke)
This was my first exposure to Linux. I had no internet at the time so I left it on my computer for a couple of weeks and played with the settings and Snake, then reinstalled Windows so I could play my games again.
I had to do a double take between this comment and the one by @davidgro@lemmy.world
Heh, hadn’t seen KDE like this in ages, it’s been a while
*CDE
Whoa, that’s early KDE? They really went all in on looking like contemporary Windows.
Qt1 came with two default themes. One of them mimicked Win95 and the other mimicked Motif. KDE1 defaulted to the former in order to look more familiar. To this day, the “Windows 9x” theme still ships with Qt and can be selected on any Plasma 6 install. Starting with KDE2 they started using their own custom themes for everything, tho.
GNOME 1 actually looked very similar, which isn’t surprising because its main goal at that point was to offer a replacement for KDE that didn’t depend on then-proprietary Qt. GNOME 2 and KDE 2 is when they really started building a distinct identity.
My first linux distro.
