Didn’t that guy have good intentions anyway and the harmful effects were discovered later?

Not sure about the history of it, but it’s different to every other distro I’ve used! Admittedly I’ve not tried loads and I’ve not been using Linux for that long, but to me it makes far more sense to tell me I don’t have permission to use a command/program than to pretend it isn’t installed

This is a fairly minor issue since it’s quite an easy fix, but it really annoys me that Debian doesn’t include the sbin folders in the default user path. Meaning that if you try to run a command that needs sudo, instead of telling you it needs sudo it just says the command doesn’t exist