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In article <3vbfdl$ju1@galaxy.ucr.edu>, jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) writes:
> In article <ericb.420.30192E68@psu.edu>, Eric Bennett <ericb@psu.edu> wrote:
> 
> >In usability the Mac is better.  Try giving my father--someone who is able to 
> >mess up his Mac within a few days of my leaving (because he tries to learn 
> >how it works by experimenting *without* reading anything first)--a Unix 
> >machine where he will have to act as root.  It would be a disaster--or maybe 
> >not, since he might not be able to figure out how to do *anything*, let alone 
> >anything destructive. :)
> 
> Why in blazes would you assign root responsibilites to a raw newbie?
> This makes no sense whatever.
> 
> You install linux and set up X for him; you configure his account 
> with a user-friendly window manager and a drag-n-drop file manager.
> 
> You tell him to be sure and apply the vulcan nerve pinch before shutting
> off power, and he's off & running. He doesn't ever need to know that there
> is such a thing as root.
> 
> You can log in as root over the phone to do sys admin stuff for him.
> 
> simple, right?

So you're saying that the average home user should be denied the full use
of the hardware and software he has purchased?

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