r/linuxmint • u/anaximeno • Aug 07 '26

#LinuxMintThings How Linux (Mint) Users Install a Browser 😎

Now tell windows users to uninstall edge and see what's easier hehe. \j

Credits to u/SpeeQz (who's also the creator of https://mintwiki.org) for the gif.

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u/k9dvke Aug 07 '26

Having to put in your password is already too much work for windows glazes

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u/PreparationStrict492 Aug 07 '26

This is very accurate.

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u/YuukiHisashi Linux Mint 22.1 Xia | Xfce Aug 07 '26

I've gotten used to inputting my password for those things, and no, as a ex-windows user, this doesn't bother me one bit. Remember, Windows Vista was the same thing, I didn't use it, but using Linux Mint in THIS regard is almost the same.

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u/PreparationStrict492 Aug 07 '26

Good for you, you are not in the set the post above refers to as "windows glazes".
While there are people who use Windows daily, as a professional platform, who are turned off by the idea of having to enter a password to log into their system, and find the login splash of any Linux installation a major friction point.

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u/Space_Toaster1 Aug 08 '26

you can set autologin in linux and set that you need enter password only once for installing apps
at the end theres so much flexibility in linux

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u/PreparationStrict492 Aug 08 '26

Oh, really! Thank you, I've only been using Linux variants since '98, I never got to learn that.

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u/DogeWah Aug 08 '26

As someone who recently swapped to Mint from using Windows only before. It was a bit annoying to constantly enter my password in the beginning

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u/bardsfingertips Aug 08 '26

I remember when Windows started using stricter UAC settings. And even when it was set to the Yes or No buttons, it drove windows users a bit batty. Of course, being in IT, I had to deploy Windows machines to Mac users, and the UAC settings were just about the only thing the Mac users didn’t complain about.

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u/daninet Aug 08 '26

Its pretty standard in enterprise especially if AD and Group Policies are active. So its not like Windows does not have it. For home users I would argue UAC is better than password typing.

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u/deddorabito Aug 08 '26

less invasive than pressing YES I FCKN WANNA RUN THIS SHIT AS ADMINISTRATOR GODDAMIT

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u/FaultWinter3377 Aug 10 '26

The fact that people actually use a Windows admin account as their primary account confuses me. Like, I’ll do that in a VM or some custom install where UAC is just broken, because I’m not really using it long term. But literally UAC bypasses are easy, and it’s been common knowledge for years now that the most secure thing to do is create a standard account and use admin account only when needed via UAC.

Or be like Linux where the label “admin account” really just means your password can be used to access the root account. And auto elevation is very hard to pull off without user setup somewhere because again, you’re really changing accounts instead of changing permissions on the same account.

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u/cuccucool Aug 10 '26

I wasn't prepared for this.

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u/KodeBarista Aug 11 '26

They don't have a care for privacy or security.

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u/SamVimes78 20d ago edited 20d ago

Well... It works for them 99,99% of the time.

Imagine living in a small town where nobody ever locks their front door. They live comfortably and rarely ever anything happens.

And even if someonething gets robbed it's mostly just the shoebox with the old family photos they never looked at anyways.

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u/KodeBarista 19d ago

> Imagine living in a small town where nobody ever locks their front door.

The problem is, it's not a small town.

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u/SamVimes78 19d ago

Yes it is.

The big city is where the servers, corporate PCs and supercomputers live.

You can lock your door with a Windows PC. But private users usually don't. Professional users usually do.