Should I use the initial user for everyday use in Ubuntu?

Question

When I first installed Ubuntu, it asks to create an initial user. this user has admin privileges. Since I cannot Ubuntu doesn't use root and gives the admin priviliges to the initial user, should I use this initial user?

In Ubuntu, you use sudo for anything requiring privileges correct? Should I create another account for everyday use that has no admin privileges instead? I kinda new to Ubuntu.

Answer 1

Sure, use it for everyday use.  It *sort of* has admin privileges.  That means you can *get* admin privileges, but you don't have them most of the time.  

The danger of having admin privileges all the time is that

A) you can accidentally do something you shouldn't have and end up doing a lot of damage.  If you're running unprivileged, the damage you can do is minimal.

B) if you were to contract a virus or other malware, it would run at whatever privilege level you are using. (Yes this is very rare, but it might happen someday.)  If you had full admin privileges, so would the malware.  Again, an unprivileged user would do less damage.  

If you don't invoke sudo except when you really need to, you should be fine.