As an old-school Unix admin (started out on HP-UX 3.0), I use "real
root" all the time. Sure, there can be nasty consequences if you don't
know what you are doing or are not careful so I wouldn't recommend it
for a new user. I can remember back in the day, diving for the power
switch after inadvertently entering rm * . YIKES! On my servers, I do
most things with root. On my clients there is not any easy way to
become root.