Les Mikesell wrote:
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.
For simple administrative tasks we create guis. Theres little reason for
the user to be messing around with the rest of the file system even in
more extraordinary circumstances.
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.
There's nothing wrong with a black box as long as its easy to open. Joe
user doesn't want to know how his computer works. He gets offended when
you try to teach him and blames Linux for forcing him to acknowledge the
physical realities of his machine. That's part of what's kept Fedora
from pursuing Joe user for so long. However, we are now at the point
where we don't have to compromise the system for power users to keep Joe
user safe from his computer. We can have both, we just have to abstract
the system rather than alter it.
--CJD
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