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Title: review of siduction in distrowatch
Post by: thomv on 2023/03/27, 18:16:43
Distrowatch has a new review of siduction (22.1.1): https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20230327#siduction (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.
Title: Re: review of siduction in distrowatch
Post by: unklarer on 2023/03/27, 19:03:04
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.   (https://i.imgur.com/wONLPnh.png)
Title: Re: review of siduction in distrowatch
Post by: eriefisher on 2023/03/27, 20:32:17
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.
Title: Re: review of siduction in distrowatch
Post by: vinzv on 2023/03/27, 21:17:17
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. 
Title: Re: review of siduction in distrowatch
Post by: dibl on 2023/03/27, 21:38:39
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.
Title: Re: review of siduction in distrowatch
Post by: swiftgoose on 2023/06/22, 10:10:36
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.
Title: Re: review of siduction in distrowatch
Post by: michaa7 on 2023/06/30, 12:55:40
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.
Title: Re: review of siduction in distrowatch
Post by: Mte90 on 2023/07/05, 11:27:54
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.
Title: Re: review of siduction in distrowatch
Post by: charlyheinz on 2023/07/05, 12:59:13
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!
Title: Re: review of siduction in distrowatch
Post by: ReyFer on 2023/07/10, 15:25:18
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
Title: Re: review of siduction in distrowatch
Post by: eriefisher on 2023/07/10, 18:53:34
I refrain from responding. Sorry or not!
Title: Re: review of siduction in distrowatch
Post by: devil on 2023/07/10, 19:14:44
Same here. We do the work – we decide what we implement.
Title: Re: review of siduction in distrowatch
Post by: michaa7 on 2023/07/10, 20:31:00
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.