Comment 909 for bug 1

thegizmoguy wrote:

> For the autologin in XP watch how fast it can be done:
>
> Start-> Run-> control userpasswords2......can figure it out from there.

A command line abstraction. Start -> run and a box for a command line
option is not GUI.

> I'd bet in linux it would be a 50 line config file modification all done
> via the terminal and gedit.

System -> Administration -> Login Window. Click the "Security tab" and
select the login option and user. Click "Close." This can be done with
no keyboard attached.

The problem is not what Linux can do, but what you know. You know about
userpasswords2, or at least where to look. You do not know that
autologin is under a security tab. This is an education problem masking
as a usability problem. I will admit that it is not helped by people
posting obscure command line stuff that is hard to understand.

As to why the devs are not on the user lists... It gets old answering
the same question over and over again. Most of which are answered with
a search. An example is that ample evidence of 8x series nvidia
graphics cards and known issues with the nv driver. That is why I have
a 7950gtx in my system.

You say you "I don't have the luxury of having a system handed
to me that works." Why not? Either learn the hard way, or get a good
example from Dell. Both have a cost. Was your Windows knowledge free?

This gets to the heart of bug 1. Microsoft is so common that the
workarounds for the issues they have are well known. Linux workarounds
are hidden, fragmented, and often obscurely written. That is a real
problem, but a different one that what you are talking about.