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[-] Forester@pawb.social 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 4 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Forester@pawb.social 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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

[-] kungen@feddit.nu 3 points 1 day ago

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

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

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

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