Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome

On Fri, 2 May 2025 15:03:01 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:

For someone who was new, I didn't even know what these mysterious files
were!  They just were yellow circles with faces, like a emojie with
croses for eyes and I think a tongue hanging out, as if dead.  Or a
bomb.  They just appeared on the filesystem and could be large.

I think it might have been SUSE but if you ran as root the background
changed to a red field with big black smoking bombs like the ones seen in
cartoons.

I think Ubuntu was the first distro I ran into where root sort of
disappeared.