While I appreciate what you say Tom I rarely install commercial or prebuilt distros in fact this is a first in my memory.
I usually compile my os and need to have root privileges in order to even grant a sudo user let alone anything else.
A normal install for me is from the net and a root password has to be given to proceed.
I am now using this on 4 confusers and yes if I leave the root password blank I am automatically granted sudo privileges.
My normal install would be as root and then add the sudo user and install the packages I want rather than delete what I don't want.
It's only a matter of preference but I don't want or need an office suite, media players, sound blaster, torrent, cd burner, a choice of terminals, power manager or anything else to slow my machine and interfere with my work, I simply want a computer to do what I want it to do.
I want to administrate, simple as that, and I should be able to, and am now I know.
