Ted Gould wrote:
This is unrelated to Inkscape, but please don't run as root. A lot of the security techniques used by Linux in general rely on the user being unprivileged. Being root breaks this assumption, and thus makes your system more vulnerable overall.
--Ted
I do login as a user, I'm not using the OS as root. But I often have to authorize root access to do the things I need to do. All my linux friends told me to go with user and they said I would only need to occasionally login as root until things settle down and I have all the features I need, but that hasn't happened yet and I still often have to use root access :p
I also ran into a weird problem recently (weird to a former windows user), my home directory became full (I think) and I couldn't save a file I was working on. Is there a limit on my home dir that is less than the available space on disc partition?