One of the minor things I like the most about Raspbery Pi is it has the default user.
Since the days desktop OSes (i.e. Windows 2000 Professional) first started to demand the user to name themselves and sign-in (which didn't protect their data anyway and still doesn't protect today as Windows Home doesn't include BitLocker) I hated this useless complexity. I in fact met many hundreds of PC users and just a minuscule fraction of them (also of those sharing a PC among a number of family members) used an actual multi-user set-up.
Linux seemingly did this from the very first day because it's non-PC Unix legacy.
Once I tried Raspberry Pi I felt a pleasant relief: it never asked (although allowed) me to personalize it and just worked. I didn't have to invent a nickname nor expose my real name. It was just a handy tool like in good old days when you didn't have to connect your oven to WiFi.
PS: I do understand how useful the OS's multi-user mechanism is to limit what untrusted app instances can do.
Since the days desktop OSes (i.e. Windows 2000 Professional) first started to demand the user to name themselves and sign-in (which didn't protect their data anyway and still doesn't protect today as Windows Home doesn't include BitLocker) I hated this useless complexity. I in fact met many hundreds of PC users and just a minuscule fraction of them (also of those sharing a PC among a number of family members) used an actual multi-user set-up.
Linux seemingly did this from the very first day because it's non-PC Unix legacy.
Once I tried Raspberry Pi I felt a pleasant relief: it never asked (although allowed) me to personalize it and just worked. I didn't have to invent a nickname nor expose my real name. It was just a handy tool like in good old days when you didn't have to connect your oven to WiFi.
PS: I do understand how useful the OS's multi-user mechanism is to limit what untrusted app instances can do.