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Originally Posted by twowheels
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It's quite easy, I don't have to log-out and log back in. Linux is very flexible, everything is harder in Windows if you know your way around a computer. (I'm a software developer and have used both Windows and Linux since they each respectively first came out, and other Unix OSes before Linux existed [even working as a developer on a Unix OS before Linux], so I think that I can say I know my way around a computer)
You can have multiple full GUI environments running at once, each as a different user, if you want, and switch almost instantly with a very simple <CTRL><ALT><F#> (where # is the virutal desktop it's running on) keystroke, or if you're a command line user like me you can just open a terminal and prefix your modifying commands with (sudo -u <user> <command>), which is basically the same way that you get administrator (root) permissions, you prefix commands with sudo. If you want to run a single GUI program as one user and another GUI program as another user on the same GUI desktop you can.
Remember, I do this for files that are not actively changing and I don't want to get messed up, so it's not an every-day thing, but ensures that I cannot mess up my long term archived files by accident. |
Thanks for the explanation. I've never used Linux and tried to imagine your way of doing things on Windows...
