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To be fair, you could make a distribution that works this way (or you could modify a current install). Simply make critical files belong to root, make files that are fairly important (config files) belong to a special user, and make user files belong to the user. This way, you can do day-to-day system administration with a more powerful but still limited user, while performing critical operations, such as installing a bootloader, as root. NixOS sort of does something similar, although not necessarily for the reason of preventing breakage. Any regular user can install packages for his/her own environment, which the daemon installs in the package directory that belongs to "nixos" You still need to use root for system configuration, unless the "configuration.nix" could also be chowned to the "nixos" user.