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Everyone here seems to be over-complicating the issue, so let me put it in simple terms.
My wife took her laptop away for the week. I get a call from her telling me she can't connect to any Wifi. I didn't want to give her my admin password, so she had to spend the whole week without a computer (no internet, means no computer to my wife). I had no idea she needed special privileges (there was no prompt or option for that when creating her account), and she had just been using the existing Wifi connection that I created when I first got the laptop, so we didn't know about the issue.
Needless to say, this is a MASSIVE USABILITY ISSUE. Linus had something to say about usability problems like this with Suse and his daughter. https:/
Now, I've spent the last several hours trying to figure out how to fix it, and none of the "solutions" are initiative, obvious, or findable using the UI. This is a non-issue on every other platform.
Users should be able to change network connections on desktops/laptops. PERIOD. BY DEFAULT. ALWAYS. I don't give a damn about servers settings and especially neither does my wife.
Please fix this.