True, but they are all seen that way when there's only a single owner logging in, clicking the desktop, accessing the command line, executing commands. We can push all that 'NPC multi-user' stuff to the side just as we would for Windows.In a networked environment no computer is single user.Possibly but needing to deploy passwordless 'sudo' would appear to suggest standard Linux security, the usual default, is too restrictive.Maybe the security features of Linux are the minimum of what's needed.
Possibly but the current situation is too permissive. The compromise approach used on Home editions of windows may be the way forward: no password for elevanted privileges but you do have to confirm via a dialogue that you want to allow the command/application to execute with root rights.
But that's not perfect either. Folks can get into the habit of hitting "Yes" without reading the message.
What's needed and wanted in a multi-user commercial or industrial environment can be very different to what a home user needs or wants.
One could say Linux is a square peg being hammered into a round hole when it comes to home users.
I don't believe there is an easy one-size-fits-all solution. My feeling that as in a lot of things (automatic login, automaounting, where you put your manual mounts, etc.) the answer is to educate and explain the right way but if someone insists on doing things the wrogn way make it d???ed clear that I won't help fix the mess they'll get themself into.
And no, not everyone will be a Linux admin in later life but things are easier when we're talking a common language with a common frame of reference.
Yep but, realistically what other option is there?
Develop your own OS from scratch?
Convince MS to port Windows? Good luck with that they've had twelve years and they've not done it yet (though there was a couple of years with Windows Iot on the 3B but that ain't supported anymore and was never a desktop OS).
Convince Apple? Yeah like that'll happen when they have zero control over the hardware.
Use a different open source OS? Most of the (limited) ones I've seen are Linux varients or Unix/POSIX based so you'd have all the same issues. RISCOS Open? Yeah it exists but is flawed and last time I looked was lacking some features present in a modern OS.
And on the subject of Linux vs Windows, there is a key difference in the security models in use: Linux is multiuser from the ground up. Windows is a one user per computer OS with security bolted on top over the course of a decade or so.
Statistics: Posted by thagrol — Wed May 01, 2024 10:38 pm
