said Mike Bird via tde-users: | On Sun August 31 2025 16:37:56 dep via tde-users wrote: | > Here's another one: Remember when, if you tried to execute a command | > that requires root privileges, the error would tell you that you | > needed to be root to do that? Now it's simply "command not found." I | > discovered this when I tried to run synaptic, figuring I'd get the | > usual password box. instead, I got command not found, so I did sudo | > apt install synaptic and was told I had the latest version installed. | | In a typical linux setup, /usr/sbin and/or /sbin and/or /usr/local/sbin | are on root's $PATH but not on the $PATH of regular users. | | Contrariwise, root's $PATH usually doesn't have the .../game | directories.
So I've been using atypical Linux since 1998?