"Like I said: you're wrong." Mostly I'm running terminal - X just lets me get more characters on the screen than using a plain old tty. In truth, I don't use i

"Like I said: you're wrong." Mostly I'm running terminal - X just lets me get more characters on the screen than using a plain old tty. In truth, I don't use it for much other than that, and it's a pain having to type in "sudo" and my password all the time. On a broader point, Linux was never about hectoring users about how to run their computers. That, I thought, was the entire point of a free/libre OS: the freedom to shoot myself in the foot if I choose. (Oh, and do lots of other interesting things too, but foot-shooting is my priority here.) I switched to xfce. Much faster, less clutter, no lecture when I log in as root.