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It do be like that (lemmy.world)
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[–] Forester@pawb.social 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 0 points 2 months ago

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

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 months ago

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