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The news industry will stop saying overdue UX fixes are too hard
niemanlab.org
The reason different distributions use different ranges of numbers for regular users, typically in the range of 500+ or 1000+, is just a matter of preference on the part of the developers. I think it was previously more common to use 500 and up, but over the years most projects have shifted to 1000 and up for new user accounts. This is usually just to give more room for UIDs to be assigned to system services. In years past, when computers had more limited resources, it was pretty common to have each system just run one or two background services. Now powerful machines could run hundreds of services at a time, which I believe was the motivation for some distributions to reserve more space between the UID for root (0) and the UID of the first user account (1000). There isn't anything particularly special about the starting point for UIDs, but 1000 is a nice, round number.
DistroWatch.com: Put the Fun Back Into Computing. Use Linux, BSD.
distrowatch.com
My general theory is that every bad thing that a public company does is securities fraud.
Musk Gets Away With Mischief
bloomberg.com
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