No, most people don't want that. The average HN reader does. If your business plan can thrive with 95% of your customers being developers, sysadmins, geeks, ne

No, most people don't want that. The average HN reader does. If your business plan can thrive with 95% of your customers being developers, sysadmins, geeks, nerds, academics, people who remember what the first and second derivatives of space with regard to time mean, and the people who are associated with them... sure, go ahead. But we already are almost there with macos and chromeos and linux. We just need one more layer: root can allow and rescind privs to users who can allow and rescind privs to applications but the fact of the matter is, right now people not in the categories above do not like the tradeoff of thinking about permissions in exchange for more control. Microsoft and Apple could force it on them, but as soon as a convenience feature of "never think about this decision again" shows up, users will click on that and never think about it at all. Some people will click on things because they were promised a game, or porn, or wallpaper images of kittens.