User Profiles

I have just finished reading (and re-reading) a post by Paul Drain about locking the screen and the xscreensaver in general.

I agree with him that Xscreensaver is crap, as far as its configuration dialog goes. I also like the idea of the configure screensaver and lock screen on the right click menu.

However, I do not agree about the "User knows how to use their desktop thing". The reason I disagree with it is that anything that is usable by Aunt Tillie is also usable by Joe Hacker, and Joe Hacker can figure out how to change stuff by themselves.

The proof of this is in the following: Joes and Tillies alike are moving to Mac OS X and Ubuntu. And Joe's are even moving from such l33t distros like Gentoo.

So I say again:

Just because you known your way around a desktop doesn't mean that you don't want a usable one