On 11/12/14 17:21, Richard Owlett wrote:
There is a market (how large???) for a single user single task computer and OS.
It's very large indeed! Apple, and the various customers (e.g. Samsung, LG, HTC) of Google and Microsoft, are quite enthusiastic about selling devices that (superficially) cater to that market.
That is how I operate ~100% of the time. Security is a non-issue, I have the only key to my house. It needs only one password to cove case of physical malicious access. There would be advantages to a maintenance password to guard me from making careless/dumb errors on *MY OWN* machine. It would be extremely useful if its kernel supported running unmodified Debian packages.
Conveniently, it turns out to be possible to configure a Debian system to automatically log you in when you turn it on. I haven't *followed* any of the links duckduckgo has kindly provided me with when I typed
debian autologininto its search box and pressed RETURN, but at least some of them certainly appear to be useful based on the "preview" text shown in the list.