On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 04:13:59PM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > On Nov 11, 2024, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
[...] > > Multiseat is one particular form of multiuser computer. There are > > lots of other forms. A computer where one person at a time uses it is > > called a single user computer. It is not a multi user computer. > > I read the article as not really counting a shared computer with > multiple discrete users as quite "multi-user" beyond a nod of the head > towards "yes, yes, I know multiple users are sharing one PC..." I think the riddle over "multiseat" are desktop environments in Linux. Whereas Unix computers have been inherently multiuser from the get-go, when "big" DEs started in Linux, programmers started forgetting that; what constituted a "session" who had "the graphics card" (why can't you have two? why can't one serve two people)?. With multi-seat (ISTR the term originated at Redhat), people started to re-invent what a "user session" means. In a confusingly and quite irritatingly new manner, mind you. So you now (yay!) can have two Gnome sessions. But you pay the price that a Gnome session is quite a different beast from an X session, with an own DBUS thingy, an own Systemd thingy, yadda, yadda (same goes for KDE). Makes things far more obscure and less hackable. That's what we get when we mix branding, huge egos and commercial interests with free software. A monster (or a collection thereof ;-) Cheers -- t
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