It’s true that the pre-UAC situation in Windows was bad, but the function of UAC was to encourage app developers to do the right thing. Raymond Chen agrees: ”U

It’s true that the pre-UAC situation in Windows was bad, but the function of UAC was to encourage app developers to do the right thing. Raymond Chen agrees: ”UAC is not a security feature. It’s a convenience feature that acts as a forcing function to get software developers to get their act together.” https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20160816-00/?p=94105 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20160816-00/?p=94... On a single user machine, it does nothing for user security, because all of the things worth protecting, like your data, don’t require elevation anyway. As for preventing fuckups, it prevents the wrong fuckups. Deleting my user files is a bad fuckup. A program trashing my files and emptying my bank account is a bad fuckup. Trashing my OS install, the only thing root can do that my user account can’t, is an inconvenience.