1) What's with all the GUIs?
Some things are just easier to do at a command line. There doesn't have to be GUIs for everything, but there should be a good command line structure so that a user doesn't have to go through 15 levels of menu options to get to the one damned thing he needs.
2) Running as admin is stupid!
Whoever thought running as an admin all the time would be a good idea? That persion should never be allowed to breed! Correctly setting up permissions and roles is a relatively easy task. And hell, not everyone needs to be installing the latest rootkit automagically anyhow.
I don't even remember all of my root passwords.
3) Install files.
What in the hell is that all about? You mean I have to search around the web through a browser to find the tools I want or need? Why not just issue a command to download and install it for me? No buttons to click, no random files spread all over my desktop because I had to download them to install them.
Thankfully most modern OSes can install a lot of programs easily, quickly, and in a working order. Maybe Windows will join their ranks one day. Installer files are so 1990's!
4) No compiler?
This is baffling. How in the hell do I write programs or change the ones I have if I don't have a compiler?
EDIT: Does anyone run their browser or other client side avenues of attack under a different user name through su or sudo to protect their own files incase it does get exploited?
Some things are just easier to do at a command line. There doesn't have to be GUIs for everything, but there should be a good command line structure so that a user doesn't have to go through 15 levels of menu options to get to the one damned thing he needs.
2) Running as admin is stupid!
Whoever thought running as an admin all the time would be a good idea? That persion should never be allowed to breed! Correctly setting up permissions and roles is a relatively easy task. And hell, not everyone needs to be installing the latest rootkit automagically anyhow.
I don't even remember all of my root passwords.
3) Install files.
What in the hell is that all about? You mean I have to search around the web through a browser to find the tools I want or need? Why not just issue a command to download and install it for me? No buttons to click, no random files spread all over my desktop because I had to download them to install them.
Thankfully most modern OSes can install a lot of programs easily, quickly, and in a working order. Maybe Windows will join their ranks one day. Installer files are so 1990's!
4) No compiler?
This is baffling. How in the hell do I write programs or change the ones I have if I don't have a compiler?
EDIT: Does anyone run their browser or other client side avenues of attack under a different user name through su or sudo to protect their own files incase it does get exploited?
