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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mucus: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: Nope, still not seeing the difference. If you're in a non-Admin account in Windows and want to do Admin stuff, you have to re-login as an admin. To do important stuff in Linux, you have to enter in the Very Important Password. Considering that it takes roughly 5 seconds to log off or switch users using XP, I fail to see how it's so much more amazingly great to do it the Linux way as oppossed to creating an admin account for yourself, passwording it, and making everyone else use a User account. [/QUOTE]5 seconds is a big exaggeration, especially when people have older machines. Plus its a big pain in the ass. You have to close all your programs, interupt your work, even turn off Winamp. Plus its switching a profile twice. In reality, I'm running a dual-boot machine. I usually login to Linux in a non-root account, I login to Windows in the Administrator account. There's a reason why. [QUOTE] But it strikes me as being the sort of situation where people who need them will set them up, and people who won't...won't. I certainly wouldn't want to have to enter a password everytime I want to do something on my machine, since I'm the only one that uses it. [/QUOTE]*shrug* I did note specificially that the idea had more appeal when setting up computers for other people who muck up computers a lot. (i.e. parents, siblings) [QUOTE] Does that mean you have to enter a password in Linux everytime a web-site wants to put a cookie on your computer, or you want to change the resolution, or stuff like that? [/QUOTE]Uh no, web browser != OS. Resolution is profile-dependent, which is probably the case in Windows as well. Off the top of my head a few examples would be installing software for everyone on the computer (as opposed to just your own profile), upgrading the kernel, and well messing around with other people's profiles. PS: I just noticed, did you say that you were running a Windows install with *no* Administrator password at all? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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