Shoegazer [he/him] to technology • edit-21 year ago"Hey I'm looking for [simple app] on Linux"message-squaremessage-square65 fedilinkarrow-up170file-text
arrow-up170message-square"Hey I'm looking for [simple app] on Linux"Shoegazer [he/him] to technology • edit-21 year agomessage-square65 Commentsfedilinkfile-text
"Nah man, you should just install this terminal app and memorize 500 shortcuts to go back one directory"
minus-squareAlkaliMarxisthexbear7·1 year agoYeah, Windows uses the same flawed permissions model but in Unix so many tasks require root access. It reminds me of Vista's UAC implementation where it prompted for admin access so often a lot of people just turned it off. link
minus-squaresilent_water [she/her]hexbear5·1 year agoit's because most distributions don't build and install packages with user permissions. check out home-manager for a fix to this. link
minus-squareAlkaliMarxisthexbear1·1 year agoThanks for the recommendation, I might give this a go. Based on the description on their github page, this isn't really mature enough to help the non-technical user who's copy pasting sudo commands though. link
minus-squaresilent_water [she/her]hexbear2·1 year agoyeah, it's just a new model we could use and I'd like to see something similar get adopted by most distros. link
Yeah, Windows uses the same flawed permissions model but in Unix so many tasks require root access. It reminds me of Vista's UAC implementation where it prompted for admin access so often a lot of people just turned it off.
it's because most distributions don't build and install packages with user permissions. check out home-manager for a fix to this.
Thanks for the recommendation, I might give this a go.
Based on the description on their github page, this isn't really mature enough to help the non-technical user who's copy pasting sudo commands though.
yeah, it's just a new model we could use and I'd like to see something similar get adopted by most distros.