this post was submitted on 25 Dec 2024
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

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