On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 09:53 +0200, Giancarlo Niccolai wrote:
Good computing => "least surprise effect".
People coming from windows => ctrl+alt+<fumble>bs "OH CRAP --- I am so
XXXX I forgot to save my work files in 15 Word (ops, Openoffice) windows
in the past 3 days!!!!"
Openoffice has autosave/crash recovery, so this would not happen.
People knowing their systems and just upgrading => x blocked =>
ctrl+alt+bs ... ctrl+alt+bs... "what the..." ... CTRL+ALT+BS. "OH SHIT
-- I got to hard reboot loosing all the work on console sessions and
possibly fucking up that crap of XXXX filesystem the installer forced me
to use!!!!"
Ctrl-alt-bs doesn't reboot the kernel so your filesystem loss scenario
is at odds with reality.