Christopher Martin wrote:
If you sit an average Windows user down in front of a system running Linux
or something else Posix, they will bitch about having to log in, they will
bitch about having to type in a password to install software and they will
be frustrated when their torrent client doesn't just use UPnP to open up the
required ports.
And, as for default security setups, OS X doesn't require a password by
default, you have to switch in on before it challenges for a password (but
it does ask for passwords before you can make any system changes, but you
have plenty of elevation opportunities before that becomes an issue).
I remember when Mac OS X was in public beta, a common complaint was "I
hate having to log into my own machine!" At that time, you *did* have
to log in with a password, even if it was a single-user machine. By the
time it was released, automatic passwordless login was the default.
Of course, people who only knew the beta version continued to make the
same complaint over the next year or two. But then, I'm sure there are
people out there who won't touch Linux because they still think you have
to compile your own kernel and either compile all your programs or
manually search through 20 levels of RPM hell just to install one program.
--
Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>
