Do you have a separate admin account, or let your “main” account have admin rights? Do you require entering a password/PIN to install software? Just curious about where people fall on the security-convenience spectrum.

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When I had a windows computer I would crank the setting that requires administrator privileges way up. But the only time I actually logged into admin was to install drivers.

I just have admin rights on my account and don’t give anything I don’t trust UAC permission. No installer/platform like Steam or EGS or GOG requires UAC permission if they install to a different drive, and I have Windows on its own M.2 drive, while my games go to 1 of two 2TB nvmes.

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My main account has sudo rights and I type the password in whenever making root changes. I far prefer this to the windows model of admin changes only requiring a yes click.

Most stuff I install doesnt require admin anyway. Its only system updates.

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Use an underprivileged account, create a separate account, then you’ll be prompted for user name and password when escalation is attempted. Same thing.

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On the windows gaming machine, I let it do its own thing with UAC clickthroughs basically just notifying me when something is making system changes.

On Linux, I have a separate root password and use some combination of su, kdesu, yast, or whatever, but I never log in as root directly. I don’t game that much on Linux (that machine is lacking in graphics horsepower), but things like EU4 work well enough.

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On my server I do most things under a non-root account.

On my Windows machines I really don’t want it to tell me what I can and cannot do. If I break it I’ll fix it.

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I just left all the stuff as it was :p… I have 1 account I use for everything. In terms of needing a password to install software, I suppose it depends on what im installing

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I like to actually log in as root on a terminal to do admin stuff, never got into sudo really. Old habits, you know.

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I’ll do that on my Linux machine if I have to do a lot of admin stuff. Otherwise I just stick to sudo.

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Why not sudo -s?

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No particular reason but for that sort of thing I just do su -

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