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frog@feddit.uk 1 day agoThis requires more work but don’t make anyone an admin of their computer if they don’t know what they’re doing and you have to clean it up.
My mother has the sudo password. It’s fine, she doesn’t mess with the command line unless I write an email saying “open terminal and copy and past this command into it…”
And even then I have to be on the phone with her to explain how to open the terminal. But that’s way easier than trying to explain how to navigate through a bunch of menus.
Agreed! It’s just way easier to explain “open that black box thingy here and then write what i sent ya”
Than “click this, then do that, click this, then write this here press windows and R, write this, the click that…”
CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My uncle wasn’t the admin of his (Windows) computer, but he managed to install a web browser that was basically malware. The damn thing didn’t require any admin permissions to install, and it automatically ran a powershell script to reinstall itself if it was removed. I had to edit the registry to remove it. It’s crazy.