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GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

Posted Dec 15, 2005 22:25 UTC (Thu) by emj (guest, #14307)
In reply to: GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition by zlynx
Parent article: GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

Well you are right in one sense, what should a user do in the root? You really should have everything in your home directory, perhaps in the "my Documents" folder. Or even better let people "tag" their files, and make it a database.

On bigger multiuser system it's even worse, have you ever tried to find the account of your friend John in the local /afs.. "Now was is /afs/fnord.se/homes/h/dk/sf/u2313n23? I can't really remmeber... "


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