I didn't read all your trolling, however, what I already read is simply stupid. Users by default cannot use sudo to get user privileges for good reasons. The Ubuntu default should be, that just the first user, with the ID 1000, is able to get root privileges by sudo. On a multi-user system it's not wanted, that everybody is allowed to mount what ever she wants. Yes, some users cannot access what they want, due to security reasons. Regarding your argument that by accident somebody could wipe out a Linux install, there are several security mechanisms to prevent users to delete important things. One is that users cannot use sudo to get root privileges, but even a superuser has levels of protection, for example to mount read only, to set the immutable bit, not to use rm -r, but instead rm -I files* and rmdir or e.g. unlink instead of rm to remove a link. You describe Windows user typical behaviour without self-responsibility. For the averaged Ubuntu desktop PC user on a single-user environment, by default this user could use sudo, gksudu. There are several solutions to realise what you want, wide spread is usage of e.g. pkexec.
Indeed, some things cannot be done with Linux, but could be done using other operating systems. Usually this is related to nieces that require much money and manpower for the development. For those nieces there sometimes is non-free software for Linux available, too and sometimes FLOSS coders simply need more time, due to the lack of manpower and money. If you need something Linux doesn't provide, than either get your hands dirty or use another OS that already provides what you need. I'm even not against adopting something good from another OS, I'm not against Windows. I'm against half-truth and complains that others should get their hands dirty, to fulfil your needs. Even for my taste the DEs you mentioned aren't good. Openbox fits to my needs, so I don't care about e.g. KDE. You claim that Linux doesn't fit to your needs, but Windows does. If I need a knife, I don't use a fork. Why do you use the OS that doesn't fit to your needs, if there's another OS that does? Apart from this, you could recommend that Ubuntu should consider to provide other defaults, but actually you mentioned that already the low level of Linux (user space? or the kernel?) needs radical improvements. Indeed every technology needs improvements, but radical changes to provide the same, as is already provided by another operating system, that is known for its issues, aren't improvements. I decided to use Linux in the first palace (I didn't migrate from Windows) because Linux is the way it is. I also had and have critic against Linux. Some things perhaps should be adopted from proprietary operating systems. A lot of those already were adopted and indeed, people who were hostile to me, now prefer those changes, too. OTOH some changes other like, are a PITA to me. Linux is community driven. Why don't you file feature requests to upstream and the Ubuntu bug tracker? Insinuating that people who discussed with you, would just use cheap rhetorical tricks, to stop you, is a bare lie. You repeat yourself again and again, seemingly not many people agree with your opinion, so you seem to have a problem and to solve this you don't provide something useful. Could you post links to the feature requests? To file feature requests doesn't require to provide patches, so everybody could do this. Sure, KDE, GNOME etc. don't like to become Windows clones, but you could file feature requests to the underlying low level software you criticize. Regards, Ralf -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
