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The installer says this when it asks you to type a root password. I don't know why, but for some reason the information is both right there and easy to miss.
Please tell me that this is some brand new feature they added yesterday or smth
The option to not set a root password and instead let the regular user use sudo seems to be mentioned in the installer for the first time around 2007, so it's been there for a while.