I hope you are speaking for yourself, because I appear to be older than you and almost never use root directly, 99.9% of the time I use sudo.Older UNIX users use root, and people should be aware of that, and accept it, and not ask them why. Someone asked me 'dude, why are you root' when I used root on RaspiOS. If you don't want to, then don't, but there's no reason to tell us not to--it's just what we're comfortable doing and take our own responsibility (one can about as easily make a mistake with sudo/doas/etc.).
Seconded.
And FYI, the usual reason for asking "why are you root" is because the person being asked the question is A. apparently inexperienced, B. doing something that does not need to (and should not) be done as root, or C. both.
Further, that you have made just six posts* with five of them being in your other thread means we have absolutely no way of judging your experience level.
Older Unix user don't routinely use root. They might use sudo -i if they expect to be running a number of commands with elevated privileges but I suspect most don't because it's simply to easy to make a catastrophic mistake just by typing in the wrong terminal window.
*: at the time I wrote this reply.
Statistics: Posted by thagrol — Wed May 01, 2024 9:51 am