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I think you might be confused about using linux. At no point do I enter it more often than on my work laptop (windows, constant) or my build target Mac mini.
Edit: Not new, but still. This isnt something ive set up special.
You should only enter a password once to log in, so maybe we just use our machines 1000x more than other people?
It’s entirely possible to disable passwords on Linux. Use root as your account, and enable autologin in your display manager.
In fact, you should definitely do it, OP.
or, slightly less dangerous if really one is allergic to typing sudo passwords, create a file with
username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALLin it in /etc/sudoers.d.Open needs to remove french from their OS and not preserve the root (of all lies about password usage):
sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /
(do not run this)
No idea about macOS, but this is something the typical Windows user should notice when switching over to Linux. That is, Windows OOBE gives you a user with administrative privileges by default and therefore won’t prompt you for the password again after logging in, just yes/no dialogs when exercising those admin privileges.
Typing in the password whenever you need root privileges is just part of the security model of Linux and unless for some reason you’re using
sudofor everything, people get used to it. Your default user account doesn’t automatically have root privileges,sudoorsumediates that for you. Back when I used Windows, I even had my accounts set up that way, separate admin, daily user account without admin privileges, and prompt for the admin password every time I installed stuff, etc.Granted, it does leave me with a couple compromises like a login password that is shorter than my disk encryption password so I’m not asked for the full thing every time I
sudoand sometimes leaving a terminal withsudo -ihanging around.Everyone pretending you don’t have to enter your password on Linux considerably more often than the other OSs is part of why Linux does not achieve mainstream adoption :(
Yeah, that was it.
I asked my grandmother why she didn’t use Linux and she cited the fact that people were in denial about the frequency of password use in POSIX-based operating systems as her primary reason.
How often do you run things as sudo my guy. That might cause having to enter a password a bit more often, but i can’t imagine it being that bad that someone would rage quit using linux. Seems like a huge exageration to me.
