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  • Windows is historically a “single user OS” whereas Linux is historically a multi-user OS. They’re both multi-user now but the philosophy of these backgrounds results in what you see today.

    So under Windows you login “as an admin” and don’t need passwords for many things - similar to (but very much not the same as) running Linux as root.

    Under Linux you login “as a user” and need to elevate permissions for things which can affect other users on the same system. Typically with sudo these days.

    These lines are very much blurring so you can do many things under Linux without a password and some things on Windows require “running powershell as an admin”.