Brucehankins If you are not a fan of the Mac design language and interface choices, you're not going to like this either
Thanks for your comment. It's not that I'm displeased with the Mac design, I simply don't know anything about it, having never used a Mac. The reason I do this is to learn about something that's new to me. Until now, that's been going well.
What displeases me is that I can't use the "Files" file manager to access shares which the permissions should allow me to access. And which I can fully access in the terminal, even as an ordinary user without elevated privileges.
I thought maybe after a night's sleep it would all become clear to me, but this morning I'm no closer to figuring it out than I was last night.
I decided to install Dolphin, 'cause it's a file manager I understand well. After it and about 100 dependencies were installed, the situation was pretty much the same. So I checked my user's credentials in the terminal and found out that I'm a member of the root group.
Obviously, there's something I don't understand about Linux permissions after all this time. I need to read up on the subject, so that's what I'll do next.
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I found an excellent, and easy-to-read tutorial about Linux permissions, and read it very carefully. My existing understanding is consistent with that tutorial. I.e., The process (Files) was started by user jerry, and user jerry has read, write, and execute permissions for that folder. There's no reason why user jerry should be denied access to it. Yet jerry is denied access.
This is especially disturbing when Ultramarine Budgie created no such problems. I can't understand why Ultramarine Pantheon does. I wouldn't think that user permissions are controlled by the DE.
I'm done with this exploration now, because I've learned what I set out to learn -- what Pantheon looks like, and how it works. Although I can't understand why Files denies me access to a folder I own, most users won't be affected by that.
I did figure out the virtual desktops issue. Super+Down accesses them, and Super+Left or Right selects one. Then Enter changes to the selected desktop. Based on what I've read, if I were a Mac user I probably would have already understood that.
So Pantheon looks like a great DE for anyone coming to Linux from Apple, just as other DEs attempt to make the change to Linux easier for former Windows users. From what I've seen, it appears to do that well.
