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It do be like that (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Because that's the home of root the su command is used to switch user

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Root's home has been /root on every distro I've ever used ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Consumer distros vs enterprise systems would be my guess I'm from the RHEL branch

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But "/root" has kinda always been the root user's home directory, not the root directory /.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It hasn't. That's a fairly recent (1990's) innovation.