I typically never read anything that starts with "You Should Do X", because that makes it sound like someone has access to the ultimate truth and starts preaching to others.
If we ever use that wording, please call us out.
I have seen, and generally ignore the articles that say 'you're doing X wrong' too. I think they are mostly designed as click bait.
@zleap @boilingsteam
So do I.
Some bloke I don't know at the other side of the world isn't going to tell me how I should cook my pasta.
I think it more down to being told 'you're doing it wrong, do it this way,' rather than providing ideas for different methods of cooking.
In a lot of cases there are no absolute right ways of doing things.
Should is fine, I think that is more of an advisory, where as Must is more of a command.
So in terms of using the command shell, you should only use root privileges when needed, is advice, if you decide to do everything as root don't start crying when you mess something up.
You MUST use root privileges (e.g sudo su) to install software.
@zleap @boilingsteam
So when talking about "You're cooking pasta wrong.". What word should I have used ?
Depends, if you are quoting a post or someone else then you just quote what was said, or in this case the headline part.
It really does depend on the situation and context
As I said there is no right way to do something. e.g
dmesg (as root) gives you the last few messages from the kernel (I think) on a linux system, so running dmesg plug in device run dmesg again you see related messages.
But there are multiple ways of doing that.
I think with Pasta it depends on how you like it cooked.
@zleap @boilingsteam
Yes I get it. I mean how should I have worded "Nobody gets to tell me how I should cook." ? Is it "how I get to cook" ? Or must ?
Or was it worded right and we just didn't understand each other ?
I think what you have there is correct
@zleap @boilingsteam
That's what I was talking about.
I'm not a native english speaker and perehaps "should" was not the best choice of word. "Must" ?