We made this decision early on for elementary OS, and it’s the right call imho!
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RE: https://floss.social/@omgubuntu/116140585054605692
We made this decision early on for elementary OS, and it’s the right call imho!
While a huge part of our philosophy at elementary was that someone should never have to touch a terminal (or know/care what it is!), we saw that it tripped new terminal-using folks up when it didn’t show password input. *Every other password field* both on elementary OS, the web, and peoples' other OSes/devices shows asterisks or dots as feedback. Sudo is not *that* special!
Nice to see Ubuntu addressing it, now.
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RE: https://floss.social/@omgubuntu/116140585054605692
We made this decision early on for elementary OS, and it’s the right call imho!
While a huge part of our philosophy at elementary was that someone should never have to touch a terminal (or know/care what it is!), we saw that it tripped new terminal-using folks up when it didn’t show password input. *Every other password field* both on elementary OS, the web, and peoples' other OSes/devices shows asterisks or dots as feedback. Sudo is not *that* special!
Nice to see Ubuntu addressing it, now.
@cassidy great. hate that there's no typing feedback.
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RE: https://floss.social/@omgubuntu/116140585054605692
We made this decision early on for elementary OS, and it’s the right call imho!
While a huge part of our philosophy at elementary was that someone should never have to touch a terminal (or know/care what it is!), we saw that it tripped new terminal-using folks up when it didn’t show password input. *Every other password field* both on elementary OS, the web, and peoples' other OSes/devices shows asterisks or dots as feedback. Sudo is not *that* special!
Nice to see Ubuntu addressing it, now.
@cassidy I'm used to "no feedback" but I welcome this... input should give some kind of feedback that input is being received. It's a simple positive UX pattern.
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RE: https://floss.social/@omgubuntu/116140585054605692
We made this decision early on for elementary OS, and it’s the right call imho!
While a huge part of our philosophy at elementary was that someone should never have to touch a terminal (or know/care what it is!), we saw that it tripped new terminal-using folks up when it didn’t show password input. *Every other password field* both on elementary OS, the web, and peoples' other OSes/devices shows asterisks or dots as feedback. Sudo is not *that* special!
Nice to see Ubuntu addressing it, now.
@cassidy great! Security nerds are probably not using Ubuntu anyway
and even if they are, they can just change the configuration. The user friendliness boost is well worth it. -
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