The 90’s was a wild time…
Specially for people coming from windows, this was normal. The appeal of mandrake and corel and suse was this kind of graphical control panel à la windows where you needed root privileges in a graphical interface.
I myself didn’t learn about sudo until years later, and su just from debian 3.0.
Might be satire, but I think some “products based on LLMs” (not LLMs alone) would be able to. There’s pretty impressive demos out there, but honestly haven’t tried them myself.