• ranzispa@mander.xyz
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    2 hours ago

    Cool, but to be fair Linux is made to not make you root.

    In most cases a sysadmin somewhere is root, and you may only pledge to him by email and wait weeks for when he decides you waited long enough for a reply.

    User permissions are quite strict in Linux.

    I’m still pissed there is no way for a user to decide to open a shared folder to other users which enforces base permissions without root doing that.

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      13 minutes ago

      Mind you, on my own Linux machine I can become root while on Windows all I can be is someone with admin rights (but subordinate to SYSTEM).

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      Yea, it’s a completely different security model, due to coming from Unix (a multi-user system) while Windows started as a single-user system.

      Windows is user-centric security, Linux is file/process-centric.

      Linux is arguably better, but it also requires more management.

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    3 hours ago

    Ironic. Most Linux desktop distros now don’t set up a root password, and they make you reboot after many updates.

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      Make you reboot? More like “suggest a reboot”, and not after “many updates” bit after installing a new kernel or graphics drivers on a running graphical desktop environment. Typically, the latter can also be handled on the command line, and the reboot suggestion is for less tech savvy users

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        Make you reboot? More like “suggest a reboot”

        They tell the user to reboot, and they don’t phrase it like it is optional. It’s been a while since I’ve used Ubuntu, for example, but my memory is that they say that a reboot is required, or something along those lines. There is nothing wrong with my using the phrase “make you reboot” for those cases.

        not after “many updates” bit after installing a new kernel or graphics drivers on a running graphical desktop environment.

        When I was using Ubuntu, I’d get a reboot request like once every couple of weeks to a month. Maybe you don’t think that’s “many updates”, but the point of the sticker was obviously to compare to other operating systems, and in that regard, it was similar to Windows, probably more frequent.

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      2 hours ago

      Please tell me which

      The only one I saw is Fedora, and that’s it. Even with something like Silver blue you can Live-apply the updates