• Forester
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    2 days ago

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

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        5 hours ago

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

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      But “/root” has kinda always been the root user’s home directory, not the root directory /.