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Damn security guys are trying to justify their existence again.
My Fedora is single user and the system handily comes with one called 'root'
This is good for precisely the single user case - potentially malicious services on your system can't view things they otherwise would be able to, or access resources they don't need. Even if it's under the same user.
Can't tell whether you are joking or not