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Author: T.J. Duchene
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?



> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 03:49:32AM +0300, Vlad wrote:



>> However these extension hubs actually cost more than a Raspberry Pi, and the Pi has the extra selling point that the student can take it home and use it there.
>> I do not see any real need for silly things like multi seat and with every nanometer less and every new cell phone the price and power consumption per Ghz falls.
>> In my opinion 99+% of users really won't care about this curiosity, which is a cool concept with less and less actual relevance or practical purpose behind it with every passing day.


Just my 2 cents

What I am about to say is not a judgement on you, but just because you might not find a feature useful does not mean that someone else doesn't. Perhaps the majority of the Linux programmer culture does not, but that does not mean that it is never used. Multi-seat logins are very useful in situations where users do not understand how to run X11 applications with different user permissions. It is an easy mechanism that is familiar to users from other systems coming over to Linux. You don't have to have it installed on your copy, but having an option is not a bad thing.