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Is it actually dangerous to run Firefox as root?

I have a few Linux servers at home that I regularly remote into in order to manage, usually logged into KDE Plasma as root. Usually they just have several command line windows and a file manager open (I personally just find it more convenient to use the command line from a remote desktop instead of directly SSH-ing into the...

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It’s not about someone sniffing your passwords, it’s about reducing your attack surface. If you use su then the entire session has root privileges and any piece of software you run could do system level damage if it has a bug. Using sudo limits the privilege escalation to just one command.

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Not true. While you won’t always have to enter your password, not every command will have elevated rights.

I finally nuked windows

I have been daily driving a dual booted laptop for the past two years. After a year of distro hopping I settled with fedora + kde and never looked back. I really liked the auto nvidia driver config and it made everything so pleasant to work. Since the last 8 or 9 months I decided to do gaming using bottles and proton ge. I...

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Who puts an exclamation mark in their name? Aside from Yahoo! I suppose.

And Westward Ho!

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Wayland on Nvidia gives me a black screen with mouse trails so your mileage may vary

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openSUSE Tumbleweed. It’s rolling and reliable.

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DBeaver because it’s not in the repos or obs

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A quick scan through the services in Yast firewall revealed that there is a sane service too. Is that enabled?

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Is mdns allowed?

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The latest version probably hasn’t passed qc yet

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