You run *any* OS as root or equivalent on a daily basis, and you're going to have problems sooner or later.
I agree with this, and it would be much less of a security issue if Windows users didn't spend their time logged on as an administrator.
The problem is that it is very inconvenient to do anything that requires administrator right if you are logged in as a normal user. A large proportion of the time you will need to log off and then log on as an administrator, this is vary time consuming, especially if you happen to have a number of applications running at the time.
The advantage of Linux is that you assume the role of the root user to perform a specific task that requires those privileges and then exit back to the standard user when you have finished, meanwhile all the other applications are running as the normal user.
There is the "run as" feature in Windows, but my experience of using this has never been good, although it works to a degree, there are still a number of things that it won't help and it isn't always available for all programs.
So until it is made easier for a user to perform administrative tasks without the hassle of logging off and logging back on the majority of users on their own computers will continue to log on as an administrator.
It doesn't help that the first user you are asked to create with Windows XP during the installation is given administrative rights, therefore prompting a user to log on with as that user all the time.
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You run *any* OS as root or equivalent on a daily basis, and you're going to have problems sooner or later.
I agree with this, and it would be much less of a security issue if Windows users didn't spend their time logged on as an administrator.
The problem is that it is very inconvenient to do anything that requires administrator right if you are logged in as a normal user. A large proportion of the time you will need to log off and then log on as an administrator, this is vary time consuming, especially if you happen to have a number of applications running at the time.
The advantage of Linux is that you assume the role of the root user to perform a specific task that requires those privileges and then exit back to the standard user when you have finished, meanwhile all the other applications are running as the normal user.
There is the "run as" feature in Windows, but my experience of using this has never been good, although it works to a degree, there are still a number of things that it won't help and it isn't always available for all programs.
So until it is made easier for a user to perform administrative tasks without the hassle of logging off and logging back on the majority of users on their own computers will continue to log on as an administrator.
It doesn't help that the first user you are asked to create with Windows XP during the installation is given administrative rights, therefore prompting a user to log on with as that user all the time.
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Aluminium not Aluminum?
Since that is how it is internationally known.