James Mckenzie jjmckenzie51@earthlink.net writes:
Second, the problem is that newbies, figuring that their favorite program will not run as an ordinary user, gets a wiff that root has more privileges, will attempt run as root totally hosing their Wine directory. This then starts the 'you should not run Wine as root' mantra on Wine-Users. This then causes the newbie to question why did I go to Linux/Wine when I had a perfectly running Windows system?
Please explain how running as root will screw their Wine directory. If that's really true, surely it should be fixed instead of simply throwing out a warning and proceeding.