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hurtigiolllast Monday at 4:49 AM4 repliesview on HN

can you lock fedora down such that a few bad clicks dont disable the desktop manager and boots it into the terminal?

this is the real problem with Linux on the desktop for non-power users


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SXXlast Monday at 5:11 AM

If you talking of users who dont install their own software and just use browser only then Linux was better for them for decade.

Now you can even install something with read-only system partition with snapshots so not even a power outage can corrupt anything.

For non-power users who do need to install something it was never perfect, but now these immutable distributions are here. They have their own downsides though.

opanlast Monday at 5:01 AM

Guessing this is just a hypothetical, but if you really can do that (disable the DM via the GUI by accident), I'd be curious. If you told me to do that on purpose, my first instinct would be to uninstall the package.

blahlabslast Monday at 5:07 AM

Which few bad clicks would put a fedora install in that state?

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imp0catlast Monday at 5:19 AM

I guess you could use something like Fedora Silverblue if you feel like doing some initial explaining.