What exactly is the point of sudo/UAC these days of single-user machines? I think https://xkcd.com/1200 https://xkcd.com/1200 put it well. Anything running as a

What exactly is the point of sudo/UAC these days of single-user machines? I think https://xkcd.com/1200 https://xkcd.com/1200 put it well. Anything running as an unelevated user account can access my browser sessions where it can steal my passwords, emails, other other private info. It can turn on my microphone and camera. It can read all of my documents. Those are the things I care about protecting, not whatever special things root can do like install drivers and create virtual network interfaces.