"nemesis" <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> In Linux you can locally install a whole database server under an unprivileged
> user's directory and work just fine for development purposes.  The power of
> ambient variables and simple text file configuration settings...
>
> Sometimes abstracting away too many details from the user is a bad idea... but
> this is not a fault of povray, it's a Windows issue.

I guess it's the old question of whether you want a system for standard office
or home use, or want to do something special with it.

I think there still is no one-size-fits-all OS. Linux is trying to go there, but
at the heart of it, "everyday use" is just one more "special thing" you can do
with it, which keeps showing here and there.

(Well, just my 0.02$, with no intention to start any fuss over it.)

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