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by pdonis 723 days ago
> So I'll have to create another user account to run a web browser, my mail client, a software package manager

Not if you trust those things. And if you don't trust them, you shouldn't be using them.

> or a compiler?

On my personal machine, yes, I have a separate user account for development, such as compiling programs. Creating new user accounts on a Unix machine is pretty simple.