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A family PC has more than one user. I'm sure that the same people don't want to, say, share their browsing history and log-ins or have the same taste in wallpap
by rdpintqogeogsaa 5y ago
A family PC has more than one user. I'm sure that the same people don't want to, say, share their browsing history and log-ins or have the same taste in wallpapers.
- selfhoster11 5y agoYou could do an n-way multi-boot, with an instance of the OS for each person. It's definitely small enough to support that.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago> A family PC has more than one user. Do these really still exist[0]? As far as I can tell, they only ever existed during the window between when internet access became ubiquitous and when smartphones became ubiquitous and laptops got really cheap. Besides which, I think there are better ways to accomplish that goal without user accounts. User accounts exist to protect the system and users from other users in a shared system or network, which doesn't really apply in a Desktop use case. Instead I would say what you want is switchable user profiles, plus encryption to actually protect your documents if that's important to you, because it is trivial to bypass filesystem permissions for local users anyway. [0] I'm sure somebody is doing it, but I have to imagine that within the vanishingly small Desktop PC market this use case is itself vanishingly small.