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Why should I use
doasinstead ofsudo? It's not even less typing.It is a much simpler program than sudo. A simpler and less complicated implementation means less vulnerabilities.
sudo had some serious vulnerabilities in the past: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/01/27/cve-2021-3156/
Can you actually remove sudo from a system without breaking stuff? I can image there's some stuff, scripts etc that depends on it. Unless you can alias it away?
I use my Linux system without sudo, it does break some (badly written) scripts. You can fix it by either creating a symlink in your path or replacing sudo to doas on those scripts.
But I rarely encounter these issues. Usually system applications won't be affecting by a missing sudo binary, as their privileges are typically managed by polkit or similar.