Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

[Ralf Mardorf]

I didn't read all your trolling, however, what I already read is
simply stupid. Users by default cannot use sudo to get user privileges
for good reasons.  The Ubuntu default should be, that just the first
user, with the ID 1000, is able to get root privileges by sudo. On a
multi-user system it's not wanted, that everybody is allowed to mount
what ever she wants. Yes, some users cannot access what they want, due
to security reasons.
Regarding your argument that by accident somebody could wipe out a Linux
install, there are several security mechanisms to prevent users to
delete important things. One is that users cannot use sudo to get root
privileges, but even a superuser has levels of protection, for example
to mount read only, to set the immutable bit, not to use rm -r, but
instead rm -I files* and rmdir or e.g. unlink instead of rm to remove a
link. You describe Windows user typical behaviour without
self-responsibility. For the averaged Ubuntu desktop PC user on a
single-user environment, by default this user could use sudo, gksudu.
There are several solutions to realise what you want, wide spread is
usage of e.g. pkexec.

Indeed, some things cannot be done with Linux, but could be done using
other operating systems. Usually this is related to nieces that require
much money and manpower for the development. For those nieces there
sometimes is non-free software for Linux available, too and sometimes
FLOSS coders simply need more time, due to the lack of manpower and
money.

If you need something Linux doesn't provide, than either get your hands
dirty or use another OS that already provides what you need.

I'm even not against adopting something good from another OS, I'm not
against Windows. I'm against half-truth and complains that others
should get their hands dirty, to fulfil your needs.

Even for my taste the DEs you mentioned aren't good. Openbox fits to my
needs, so I don't care about e.g. KDE.

You claim that Linux doesn't fit to your needs, but Windows does. If I
need a knife, I don't use a fork. Why do you use the OS that doesn't
fit to your needs, if there's another OS that does?

Apart from this, you could recommend that Ubuntu should consider to
provide other defaults, but actually you mentioned that already the low
level of Linux (user space? or the kernel?) needs radical improvements.

Indeed every technology needs improvements, but radical changes to
provide the same, as is already provided by another operating system,
that is known for its issues, aren't improvements.

I decided to use Linux in the first palace (I didn't migrate from
Windows) because Linux is the way it is. I also had and have critic
against Linux. Some things perhaps should be adopted from proprietary
operating systems. A lot of those already were adopted and indeed,
people who were hostile to me, now prefer those changes, too. OTOH some
changes other like, are a PITA to me. Linux is community driven.

Why don't you file feature requests to upstream and the Ubuntu bug
tracker? Insinuating that people who discussed with you, would just use
cheap rhetorical tricks, to stop you, is a bare lie.

You repeat yourself again and again, seemingly not many people agree
with your opinion, so you seem to have a problem and to solve this you
don't provide something useful. Could you post links to the feature
requests? To file feature requests doesn't require to provide patches,
so everybody could do this. Sure, KDE, GNOME etc. don't like to become
Windows clones, but you could file feature requests to the underlying
low level software you criticize.

Regards,
Ralf