The system will ask you to create an ordinary user account. This
account should be your main personal login. You should _not_ use the
root account for daily use or as your personal login.
Why not? It’s a lot harder to do damage to the system as an ordinary
user than as root; system files are protected. Another reason is
that you might be tricked into running a _Trojan horse_ program—that
is, a program that takes advantage of your superuser powers to
compromise the security of your system behind your back. Any good
book on Unix system administration will cover this topic in more
detail. Consider reading one if this topic is new to you.
Name the user account anything you like. If your name is John Smith,
you might use “smith,” “john,” “jsmith,” or “js.”