Hi, I’ve been fiddling with PopOS the past year on an old laptop and I like it. I’m getting ready to convert my windows 10 desktop to Pop and leave windows behind entirely, before I do I want to be sure I understand a few security concepts.

I’ve read suggestions that say don’t run as root, create a separate user account and only use root when necessary. Do you give that user account sudo privileges? If so, is that any different from just being root?

Also I’ve installed the ufw firewall but left it with default settings. Is that something I need to look into more?

Thanks in advance!