On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 00:09 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 10:10:29 +0200 > Svante Signell <svante.sign...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2015-07-26 at 23:17 -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote:
> > > Mounting should be restricted to only the most experienced users, > > > never embedded in the software so every user can across the board. > > > The default setup on too many Linux machines reminds me of Windows. > > > > Too sad to see this on GNU/Linux :( > > Cheer up Svante. This isn't for your corporation's web servers, it's > for the guy with a desktop, the system's only user, a guy who already > has root but just doesn't want to do su all the time, who just wants > automounting to happen. To clarify: The annoying issue with windows is that e.g. if you put in a CD in the reader, some application starts automatically depending on the CD contents. This behaviour as default is also annoying on GNU/Linux. > There are a million different use cases, and on some of them > automounting makes sense. Other times, running a command as a normal > user makes more sense. Other times, only someone with root should be > mounting. Even if automounting sometimes makes sense, it should be easy configurable! I have not found that on Windows OS versions, maybe I did not dig enough. However, on Devuan GNU/Linux that would be adding value to user experience. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
