https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179678
--- Comment #108 from Pawel <pawelci...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to Yaroslavik from comment #107) > Hi. Please delete this comment if you think that it brings nothing of value > here. I'm not intending to disobey any rules or anything. > > > This imho silly decision to disable sudo access to Dolphin just created > > negative publicity outside our GNU/Linux echo chamber. This is from a quite > > famous Youtuber doing a "Linux challenge": > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MAlgKdsdvg&t=2886s > > > > It is a reality check and a wake-up call if we ever needed one. > I am an example of a person who found out about this issue via this video. > And it won't be an exaggeration to say that I'm just astonishingly shocked > after reading the history of this issue and comments here. I've never used > KDE much, but I've always assumed that it is a software made by professional > people that works in the interest of its user. Oh boy, how wrong have I > been. I would've expected this kind of hostile behavior toward users and > ignoring their needs from Microsoft, or maybe Adobe. Somehow, you the KDE > authors have managed to be even worse here. > I've decided that I will never use KDE in the future, regardless of whether > this particular issue gets fixed or not, and I will promote the same message > to other people. I sincerely believe that there should be no place in the > software industry for this kind of anti-user behaviour. This issue is a major frustration for me as well. I still use KDE because it gives me a lot of flexibility in other areas, and is not as dumbed down as Gnome, or as archaic as XFCE. Actually, when I think about it, the fact that you can no longer customize things graphically to any serious extent in e.g. Gnome is almost as painful. Still, I agree that denying root priveleges is a major violation of a fundamental concept in Linux. You can get round it by e.g. using Krusader, but why should you? I've recently tried MX Linux and I was amazed to find that Dolphin does work there as it should. No problem going into root mode. So they must have "hacked" it for their distro. I would definitely use MX Linux, then, if it weren't for the fact that they've got their own limitations which affect me: I've got an optimus laptop (Intel + Nvidia GFX card) and I can't run the whole system on Nvidia, I can only start individual apps in "Nvidia mode", which can work as long as you don't need to use HDMI output (which is routed from the Nvidia card) - so no other monitors, no projectors.... Also, Cuda doesn't work on MX Linux, so no wasy to use GPU rendering in Blender. But for those who don't need these features, MX Linux KDE might be the distro. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
