[EN] review of siduction in distrowatch

[thomv]

Distrowatch has a new review of siduction (22.1.1): https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20230327#siduction It is quite favourable, just minor critcism (sudo, ext4 and btrfs, the possibility of installing whithout passwords), and has (fully justified) compliments to the devs and the forum.

[unklarer]

Seems these people always put the cart before the horse.

Instead of first familiarizing themselves with a distribution in their forums etc., they first install and then look in the forum. That's why he can forget about sudo.   

[eriefisher]

Seems to be good praise for the developers and the community. Sudo, hmm. I don't use it. Never even tried in Siduction. Do any of you use sudo? I prefer to just su-to-root.

[vinzv]

I'm used to sudo very much plus I have to use Ubuntu based systems for various reasons. Never seriously tried to change that habit, so: yes, sudo user here. 

[dibl]

I always add my user to the sudo group, so I can download upgrades if I want to, while leaving the desktop up and running. Also it can be handy to edit a root-owned file without leaving X (or Wayland). But most days, when I boot a computer I first boot to tty1 and, as root, run the upgrades from there, then reboot to the GUI.

[swiftgoose]

One of the most reliable working versions I've ever seen, in my opinion. I use Ubuntu-based systems since I need to and I'm quite accustomed to sudo. Yes, sudo user here—never tried to change that behavior really.

[michaa7]

I don't use sudo.

I appreciate a clear destinction between acting as normal user or doing something with root priveliges. That's why I do not recommend its use, especially not to new users.

[Mte90]

I use sudo only with a single rule for a specific command that manipulate the /etc/hosts file.
Otherwise I have a single dedicate tab in yakuake with the root user already on.

Same things in all my personal machines with siduction, on others sudo is not used.

[charlyheinz]

I do it the very old way since years, using a terminal "su to root" and start mc, where I can do everything I need to!

[ReyFer]

Sorry for all the "superior" users that don't use sudo.......the problem is not using sudo or not, the problem is that if during install I choose to NOT have root and USE USER AS ADMIN, the distro should respect my decision and enable sudo because THAT IS WHAT I ASKED FOR DURING INSTALL.....now, "su-to-root" geniuses, do you get it?

EDIT: Sorry for the harsh language, it just irks me that people really seem unable to see that, if I choose "same password for Admin" during install, it is reasonable and logic to expect that to be the case

[eriefisher]

I refrain from responding. Sorry or not!

[devil]

Same here. We do the work – we decide what we implement.

[michaa7]

Is there no way to grey out this option if you do not implement it?

I haven't done a new install since years, so I don't remember. But *if* there is a choice to select user to be root, then I can understand that he feels cheated. You should not offer something you can't or won't provide.