• @idegenszavak
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    91 month ago

    Pebkac. Gui equivalent of chown perfectly working on windows and supports recursing into directories. If the questioner doesn’t know how to login as an admin they miss some absolute basic computer usage knowledge, and a general help forum thread wont help them.

    • Scrubbles
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      31 month ago

      Not to mention there is no admin anymore, it’s essentially a sudo style with it popping up asking are you sure.

      This though really reeks of their son dragged and dropped their old files onto a new computer and didn’t set the NTFS permissions, and purposely set them up as a non admin so they wouldn’t bother them with “I got a new virus”. When I have an elderly relative ask for me to set up their computer I don’t give them admin rights

    • @xmunk
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      -31 month ago

      Strong Disagree, the GUI equivalent of chown is a bizarrely long series of clicks that less knowledgeable users will easily get confused doing.

      • @idegenszavak
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        51 month ago

        I never said it’s good ux, but it’s working

        • @xmunk
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          -41 month ago

          You described it as pebkac - it isn’t - it’s an OS design issue.

          • @idegenszavak
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            61 month ago

            If you read the thread they got an answer to their question, then OP posts this rant here like its a classic “windows is stupid” thing, while simply a user tries to do something which is too complex for them, and blames their lack of knowledge on the os.