TLDR; Laziness creates bad habits and bad habits perpetuate bad decisions, and crappy software and hipsters wearing skinny jeans create security nightmares. -

TLDR; Laziness creates bad habits and bad habits perpetuate bad decisions, and crappy software and hipsters wearing skinny jeans create security nightmares. --------- The fact that the OP said "MS Office" on linux just makes me cringe. Why put bloated closed-source software like that on your linux box? The very fact of entertaining the idea of this as if it is acceptable, screams, "grab the clue stick!" Since Ubuntu and Mint came along (and other plug & compute distros), they allow users to run linux without understanding their OS/Tools at a basic and fundamental level. I'd like to see all these Ubuntu users take a trip to the mid 90's and even complete an install. Problems weren't solved by Google search or Stack Overflow, they didn't exist. If you had an issue, you either figured it out by reading/patching source, IRC, or mailing lists, what open source project didn't run majordomo? When asking questions on IRC, you were more likely to get help if you had some semblance of a clue as to what your tool did and how it did it. At the very least, it was expected that you read through the man pages, provided pastes of any error and of course articulated your questions in a reasonably intelligent way. The days of OS wars are seemingly over, that is not that point at all here. People use what they want to use, I get that. However, thinking nix would be better if it had support for"MS Office" ..to suggest such is antithetical to the most basic principals of open source. I'm not at all saying that people who use Ubuntu are not intelligent, but I am saying that many newer users are lazy and as a result can be a detriment to their systems, as well as others in the community. Whomever started with this "sudo su" stuff and spread it around just proves my point. They obviously have not read any sudo related documentation. Of course Ubuntu's default configuration for sudo is less than ideal, but a little time spent RTFM (can't remember the last time I heard someone say RTFM) they'd see that there is no need to use "sudo su" whatsoever. There is a much cleaner way to accomplish the same thing using sudo. It's lazy and dumb period. Makes me wonder if these users even know anything at all about their shell, and I net these users use ZSH too. Worse than that is -- and this has been one of my strongest pet peeves -- "using curl/wget to pipe scripts over http(s) to sh" There was an article about this on HN recently and the author said, "Friends don't let friends pipe to sh" so true! Is it laziness or pure stupidity? How many actually read the script first? If this mechanism becomes commonly acceptable, these new nix users are going to create an economic boom for security professionals. I honestly don't know a single SysAdmin who would ever do this. I am glad others actually have a clue and are speaking up about how dumb it is. Sadly, many open source projects and their talented developers are using this approach and perpetuating it. I won't name names.