Advanced users • Re: HOWTO: Create a Super User File manager

It is much easier to mess things up in the terminal using sudo that in the GUI IMHO.

And you're wrong. It's easier to mess things up in a root file manager - simply because the file manager is easier to use.

You're both wrong , it's just as easy to screw up your system doing file move/copy/delete at a command prompt as it is in a GUI. The safest way is with Midnight Commander (TUI file manager).

The reality, no two humans are the same in this respect and people should use whatever they feel most comfortable with. This usually leads to the least mistakes as some people fat finger keyboards more, some people wayward click more and, people, like me, screw up all scenarios just about equally.

"Wrong" until you do this in a production environment and you have to explain to end users what happened and they ask "how are you going to prevent this from happening again?" and the answer is "we will use a more careful approach that minimizes/isolates the risk" which really is "don't do this again this way".

There are very good reasons why certain hoops exist in Linus which you must jump through. This kind of thing is one of them: not do things with wide open access.

But it's your system, your potential loss.

Statistics: Posted by memjr — Fri Jul 19, 2024 3:52 pm

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