bruhduh to Memes@lemmy.ml • 6 months agoIt do be like thatlemmy.worldimagemessage-square23arrow-up1466cross-posted to: linuxmemes@lemmy.worldmemes@lemmy.world
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minus-square@Forester@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-26 months agoBecause that’s the home of root the su command is used to switch user
minus-square@xthexder@l.sw0.comlinkfedilink5•6 months agoRoot’s home has been /root on every distro I’ve ever used ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
minus-square@Forester@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-26 months agoConsumer distros vs enterprise systems would be my guess I’m from the RHEL branch
minus-square@kungen@feddit.nulinkfedilink3•6 months agoBut “/root” has kinda always been the root user’s home directory, not the root directory /.
Why’s your
$HOME“/”?Because that’s the home of root the su command is used to switch user
Root’s home has been
/rooton every distro I’ve ever used ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Consumer distros vs enterprise systems would be my guess I’m from the RHEL branch
But “/root” has kinda always been the root user’s home directory, not the root directory
/.It hasn’t. That’s a fairly recent (1990’s) innovation.