Re: What is Michael Robertson of Linspire thinking?!
I think he's trying to proove that Linspire is so easy/good/safe that it's harmless to run it with supertux powers (..NOT).
Michael: Then you could say "Well, it's not really about your data, it's that people could accidentally mess things up!". Well, you could accidentally drive into a wall as well, it doesn't mean we should make all cars drive at 10 miles an hour. So, I don't see the added benefit. I DO see it's an added pain in the ass when grandma tries to change her wallpaper, and it tells her "you don't have root privileges".
The "move to trash" button on GNOME is wicked fast, it could move /boot/ with ease to ~/.Trash, rendering your machina unbootable (just an example). Running things as root is frightfully dangerous move IMHO (respect to him -- I still don't like his idea though..). We all love to play CLI, and having a root rm -rf / mv command on a non experienced hand is freaky..
Not that I'm drinking my , but I don't agree with him at all.
Last edited by bored2k; April 19th, 2005 at 02:11 AM.
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