Re: So much for
Why on all earth does a normal application have stuff running as root?
An excellent question, and one that most software providers cannot justify. The only thing that needs root level access is something that needs drivers to work - even daemons should be able to work at user level. Furthermore, I would be very happy installing software so it would only work for my user account instead for all accounts I may somehow establish in a dim and distant future.
Given that root/admin levels are the path for a lot of malware to gain a permanent foothold you'd expect SW suppliers to fix that, but so far the signs are not good on macos as well as Windows. Even Linux tends to demand root level privileges to install applications.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
