• 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    8 hours ago

    Ubuntu uses Snaps for a lot of the software, thus, when you write sudo apt install firefox that is actually an alias for “install firefox from snap”. Snaps get installed locally, not on the system (globally, for all users), but as a user, so you really can’t do much damage when you actually didn’t do anything to the system in the first place.

    Do sudo shit on any other distro that doesn’t have a company behind it, see what happens.

    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
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      4 hours ago

      True, but not actually the reason, it’s because Debian doesn’t discourage the use of the root account, and su is used instead of sudo.