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I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 7 points 10 months ago* (5 children)

You are definitely doing something wrong. Does it really ask for a password to open a browser? Windows always asks for a password for all that other stuff if you're not using an administrative account, which is supposed to happen. Unless you're fine with anyone that happens to get access to your computer being able to install/uninstall stuff.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    Yes it does. I've never had to enter a password to uninstall anything from Windows before.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago*

    Chromium has done that to me before when I didn't setup its keyring properly. I would just hit ESC three times to get past its dialog. Now I make sure to use an empty password for its keyring because I only use Chomium when something doesn't work in Firefox.

    KDE Plasma has also asked me many times for opening its keyring and that has pissed me off. I don't use KDE Plasma other than on one server though.

    Some of the other password requests you can disable in the graphical system settings (like asking for password coming out of suspend).

    For the rest, those are just the same as Windows UAC which asks whether you want to give something adminstrator privileges. There's probably a way to set up that experience if you'd rather click 'yes' in a popup than type your password.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    If you're using an administrator account it won't ask for a password but it will put up a UAC prompt. If you're not using an administrator account, it puts up a UAC prompt with a password.

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