Of course this goes to a General Resolution

Posted Feb 12, 2014 20:45 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Of course this goes to a General Resolution by mbt
Parent article: The Debian technical committee vote concludes

> If you don't need all the things in it, too bad. One case in point: multiseat. This seems to have been one of the biggest drivers behind systemd and also Gnome's dependence on systemd, yet it is hard for me to imagine why such an esoteric usage case is even desirable,

Let me explain why it is desirable. You have a powerful computer at home (mine is 16Gb ram, X3 processor, 1Tb disk).

My wife objects to computers everywhere (and we don't have much space for them, anyway).

At which point I start cursing because she's hogging the computer!

With multiseat I can just use the same computer (and I've tried connecting over X - it is *appallingly* laggy :-(

For those people who grew up with multiseat (ie started on minis or mainframes), it just seems the natural way to do things - and with modern powerful PCs, it seems even more natural!

Fortunately I've got a spare computer I can switch over to systemd to test out multiseat before I send it live on our main system.

Cheers,
Wol