My nephew changed the root password in his #fedora because... the app store wouldn't work and the vlc/fedora install instructions from their website uses the command `su -` to get root access. To which he then sought instructions to set the root password
We want users to solve #linux problems. Yes. But this is just a string of UX problems, starting with the very poor performance of every single linux app store (fedora, pop os, ubuntu) causing users to work around the damage and bad project docs
Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary:
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