It is generally accepted as a bad habit to be logged in as the root user any more than is necessary for system setup and maintenance. Since the root user has the rights to do almost anything, its just too easy to make a mistake and wipe out user data or critical parts of your system.

As soon as possible you should add new user logins for your normal day-to-day use. This may be done with the adduser and passwd commands, which must be done while logged in as root.

As a simple example, I will create a new user named gomer, with a password of golly-98: