Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (516 mails)

[Anton Aylward <anton.aylward@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Marc Chamberlin said the following on 02/05/2011 08:37 PM:

> Yeah, like I said, I am guessing on a lot of this.. This setting in 
> particular just boggles my mind and leaves me shaking my head with 
> wonder at how Linux gurus have come to love such obtuse parameters... I 
> have NO idea what devmode, busmode, and listmode mean! Don't want to 
> know, and don't want to have to learn. I just want an easy to use 
> interface with a simple model on how to establish and set permissions! 
> So yeah, I get aggressive about shutting off security whenever I 
> encounter it. LOL

Sorry, I'm a command line guy.
I think that the GUIs you find friendly hide the details that I want to
see.   With the command like I can go anywhere, do anything, see
everything.  With the GUI I can only see and do what the GUI designer
decided to let me see and do.

I'm sure that if you keep flipping between Dolphin and Yast
systemsettings and other things that are GUI you can do all this, with
pretty icons and pull down lists.  In whatever colour scheme and icon
scheme you like.

And when you shut off security all over the place you are going to end
up with other troubles.

If you keep saying you want to be ignorant then you'll find people her
reluctant to help you.

The security is there for a purpose, as even Microsoft is now admitting.



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