Casey Dahlin wrote:
I guess this the real issue. What is a normal user these days? Why can
a user get the equivalent of lsusb/lspci via Gnome/KDE but not
normally as a user. Should those have been put in some 'protected'
area so that their .desktop and executables are only available if you
are root.
The approach you're using to the filesystem is wrong. We don't need to
make it more accessible. We need to do the opposite. The user that can't
handle unix file paths doesn't need to have the system changed to
accomodate him. He needs to be kept inside his home folder where he
can't break anything.
This kind of misses the point that with the advent of the personal
computer the user became his own administrator.
It seems strange that the majority of the folder structure is the OS's
business alone, but raw space is still very much in the user's domain.
If you turn the OS into a black box appliance with no user-serviceable
parts inside you can do that. Or, just expose unix's inherent
simplicity and let people use it.
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