thegizmoguy wrote:

> For the autologin in XP watch how fast it can be done:
> 
> Start-> Run-> control userpasswords2......can figure it out from there.

A command line abstraction.  Start -> run and a box for a command line 
option is not GUI.

> I'd bet in linux it would be a 50 line config file modification all done
> via the terminal and gedit.

System -> Administration -> Login Window.  Click the "Security tab" and 
select the login option and user.  Click "Close."  This can be done with 
no keyboard attached.

The problem is not what Linux can do, but what you know.  You know about 
userpasswords2, or at least where to look.  You do not know that 
autologin is under a security tab.  This is an education problem masking 
as a usability problem.  I will admit that it is not helped by people 
posting obscure command line stuff that is hard to understand.

As to why the devs are not on the user lists...  It gets old answering 
the same question over and over again.  Most of which are answered with 
a search.  An example is that ample evidence of 8x series nvidia 
graphics cards and known issues with the nv driver.  That is why I have 
a 7950gtx in my system.

You say you "I don't have the luxury of having a system handed
to me that works."  Why not?  Either learn the hard way, or get a good 
example from Dell.  Both have a cost.  Was your Windows knowledge free?

This gets to the heart of bug 1.  Microsoft is so common that the 
workarounds for the issues they have are well known.  Linux workarounds 
are hidden, fragmented, and often obscurely written.  That is a real 
problem, but a different one that what you are talking about.

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