Linked by Robert Trembath on Sat 30th Aug 2003 11:41 UTC
As a system administrator, I have used Windows on the desktop since 2.0 and used to run Windows XP at home for my family. I use Linux and Windows servers at work and prefer (Red Hat) Linux for its security, stability and usefulness in a company with a diminishing IT budget. More than a year ago I started experimenting with Linux as a desktop solution and after installing and using more than 7 different distros along with many various versions of those distros, I found a distro that is doing everything its suppose to do, right out of the box. I'm talking about the pleasantly suprising Lindows 4.0.
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You could set up a regular user back in version 2.0
Not good enough.
The kind of end users that LindowsOS targets are not going to know enough to know that the LindowsOS default to run as root is insecure. If the OS is going to make decisions for the user, it should make the right ones, and this decision isn't right. The main reason MS defaults to Administrator privileges is because too much Windows software requires such privileges. That's not an issue with Linux software. Even OS X expects a password to be used for certain tasks.