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The landscape of security switched from the computer to the user.

As user you need to become root in a way or another to install a system program or something that affects the system as a whole. And you are aware that you are doing something that affects the system as a whole. The security was meant for multiuser environments, the computers were shared in a way or another.

But what matters now about that computer (specially when you are the single user of it) is your user, your data, your credentials, your network access, etc, all that you as user (and app you run) can access, or modify. Viruses and malware in general used to be system threats, but it is enough to be user threats now.

Things are moving to containerized in a way or another applications (docker, snaps, whatever do iOS and Android with that, etc), with limited access to your data, credentials and so on.