[haiku-development] Re: Multi-user is a mistake
- From: Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 07:29:41 +0100
> Myself I side with John, because I've always wanted my Personal Computer
> to be, well, Personal. *Nobody* else is ever going to get to use it, so
> any overhead for multi-user is just a nuisance. I'g guess, with PC
> prices so low, this is a pretty common situation. (OK, Urias has a
> "family computer", but aren't kids going straight to tablets mostly
> these days?)
Nobody around you. Don't make this more general than it is, we have some
supporters for at least some kind of multiuser support here on the ML, so
it's clearly not nobody.
> If multi-user can be added to Haiku in such a way that one can set up
> one's machine to *completely* ignore it, that's fine, but if it is going
> to get in everyone's way (even a little bit) then I too think it's a
> mistake.
Of course, one of the nice things about Haiku is it doesn't get in the way
when you do stuff. We'll implement multi-user the same way as we did for
everything else, so it just works and doesn't get in the way. Otherwise,
this would be a failure, and people would not use it. That's more or less
what happens with multiuser support in windows since they added it in
Windows 98. But the open source windows clone is another project :)
--
Adrien.
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