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If VLC does not work as non-root , either your distro or your configuration is broken. Put the blame where it belongs. Not here. That's not a problem at all for me. In fact, VLC would work perfectly on a user account. Except when I turn on my machine, I login to the root account. VLC would work jus...

I don't like this thread, at all. I don't like the tone used here. VLC must not be started as root for many reasons, security wise. VLC hasn't had the same security audits that apache had. Therefore, as we don't want to be blame for those issues, we block the launch of VLC as root. We are doing the...

Yeah, and we do care that our users do not expose themselves to needless security risks, and that they do not expose others as well. Without reckless users, we would not have botnets, you know. Besides, this is common industry practice (try to run Apache with "User root" for instance). Th...

This was a pretty stupid idea on VLC's part. I really don't care about the security risks of using a video player on my root account, if I want to. Feel free to warn me. I don't see any reason in preventing me from doing it though. Seriously, stick with making video players, preach to me later. Linu...