Originally posted by: Brazen
Originally posted by: lokiju
Interesting stance on root login usage coming from the Linux people here, guess I just never thought it to be an issue on Windows and since that's what I know, that's what I relate it to.
Any Windows sysadmin worth his salt will tell you the same thing. You don't don't use an admin account in Windows for day to day activities. Most of the time I get by with right-clicking and using "run as..." in Windows, but it's not nearly as useful as sudo.
Really, as people have said, Ubuntu made it hard to use root for a reason. If you want to make it easy on your SO, you will want her to use a regular account anyway, it will protect her from messing up the system. As a limited user, she can click around all she wants without doing anything beyond easily repairable cosmetic damage, and there isn't anything she should need to do, as a user, that would require root.
edit: ack, n0c. I type too slow.