Just... Just log as root and call it a day!
vlc:" No, no no no. I could be I won't. I won't let you watch vids as root just because I can haha"
Well I'll use the racist analogy. It's like my neighbor not letting me use my slaves as I wish when I wish.
Even as root it wouldn't let me copy or move them is what pissed me off. The files were owned by user 0 or something odd that is the default user and it wasn't in groups and I couldn't add it either so it was like the OS owned the files like in windows and you have no control besides reading them. Had that happen with another OS but that time I had not discover chmod so I just removed the distro from the hard drive.
You mean even as sudoer?
Because if you're actually fully logged as root (not just "calling" sudo)... There's nothing you can't delete / move
But well, you can't use vlc as root and browsing the web as root is just a fancy way of going fullretard, and since tropic thunder everybody knows you never go fullretard
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