> I believe multi-user systems are actually an ancient, outdated rather than a "modern" concept.
I thought that in the 80s, and even had the same experience with sharing the family PC. Then networking (and the internet) happened, and suddenly multiuser became quite useful again - even at home.
> Modern security can be done better without an OS-level concept of a user.
Perhaps, but I have yet to see a userless model that doesn't have issues on around administrative access control. Even dumb terminals had issues with this where students would change settings and then set the admin password on the terminal... As long as people use computers, users will be users...
I thought that in the 80s, and even had the same experience with sharing the family PC. Then networking (and the internet) happened, and suddenly multiuser became quite useful again - even at home.
> Modern security can be done better without an OS-level concept of a user.
Perhaps, but I have yet to see a userless model that doesn't have issues on around administrative access control. Even dumb terminals had issues with this where students would change settings and then set the admin password on the terminal... As long as people use computers, users will be users...