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I would recommend that you stay out of the root account. If you need to, that is one thing, as this situation permits. But just as on a windows machine, it is advised that you use a limited user, that way no major system damage can be done. If you want to flirt with danger as you are learning linux, or just plain wish to re-install linux over and over, use the root account as much as you like.
did I mention the security problems with logging in as root?? it gives you full access, all someone has to do is "rm -rf /*"...that 8 characters can cause your system to become unbootable. or "chmod 000 /*" etc.
-neo
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