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mFat to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 2 years ago

What feature/utility/app are you surprised is not installed by default in Linux distributions?

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What feature/utility/app are you surprised is not installed by default in Linux distributions?

mFat to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 2 years ago
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  • Eris
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    6•2 years ago

    I read that apparently if you don’t input a password for root that it apparently installs sudo. I might be wrong about this but could be worth a Google

    • @quat@lemmy.sdfeu.org
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      2•2 years ago

      The installer says this when it asks you to type a root password. I don’t know why, but for some reason the information is both right there and easy to miss.

      • @Holzkohlen@feddit.de
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        2•2 years ago

        Please tell me that this is some brand new feature they added yesterday or smth

        • @quat@lemmy.sdfeu.org
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          2•2 years ago

          The option to not set a root password and instead let the regular user use sudo seems to be mentioned in the installer for the first time around 2007, so it’s been there for a while.

    • @nik282000@lemmy.ml
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      1•2 years ago

      That kinda makes sense but I never would have found it on my own.

      • @quat@lemmy.sdfeu.org
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        5•2 years ago

        https://www.maketecheasier.com/assets/uploads/2020/08/debian-install-set-password.png.webp

        Third paragraph. I’m not trying to be a smart-ass, I also installed Debian a few times without seeing it.

        • @Holzkohlen@feddit.de
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          2•2 years ago

          Why would anyone continue reading after “you need a password for root”? You just the rest of the paragraph is gonna be ramblings about what constitutes a good password and so on. And it is exactly that and then at the very end they tell you about sudo. No wonder I always missed it.

        • @nik282000@lemmy.ml
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          0•2 years ago

          Ill have to check and see if thats in the TUI installer too. TY

          • @quat@lemmy.sdfeu.org
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            2•2 years ago

            It is, they have the same text.

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