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Every time when i poweron the pc, some proccess are started with the system. Some of them are Anydesk and SQL. I had disable sql from start alongside the system with systemctl disable mysql, so i think that i need to do the same with anydesk. But why these programs make this? Even if i dont start the app/program, they will be there, eating resources from the start... WHY THIS HAPPEN?!?!

Edit: Something i forgot to put: why they have root permissions? this happen no wonder the system i install these programms, they have the same behaviour

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[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

This is where the server/client concept comes from. Some server software runs in the background and wait for access from an external client software. Then it works on the server and produces and output for the client. This way the entire server does not need to start run and stop for every single request. I mean you don't start and close every time you click on a new link on the website, right? So your PC runs all the time. And that's similar to how MySQL operates. It starts a server in the background and then waits for any application to use it. So this is totally normal.

Now because lot of people don't want to start the server process "by hand", they put it in autostart, so it starts with your system. If you don't want it to autostart, maybe there is a way of configuring it so you have to start it manually each time you want to use it. But I cannot assist with that help, just wanted to explain why that is on a high level.