> When do we stop pretending our MacBooks are multi-user UNIX mainframes?
My computers at home have multiple users, because they have their individual preferences setting their desktops and browsers the way they like
My computers at work, laptops and otherwise, have other devs' accounts on them, so they can ssh in and grab stuff, or play with setups I have on my machine. It's a particularly easy way for me to distribute VPN keys... and of course, users can't read each other's private files. If I'm away and someone needs a computer to work, they can use my machine without each of us messing with each other's setup.
Multiple-meatspace-user machines certainly aren't as popular these days, but they're not as dead-and-buried as you're implying. Just because mainframes are no longer the big cheese doesn't mean that there's no call for multiuser machines.
My computers at home have multiple users, because they have their individual preferences setting their desktops and browsers the way they like
My computers at work, laptops and otherwise, have other devs' accounts on them, so they can ssh in and grab stuff, or play with setups I have on my machine. It's a particularly easy way for me to distribute VPN keys... and of course, users can't read each other's private files. If I'm away and someone needs a computer to work, they can use my machine without each of us messing with each other's setup.
Multiple-meatspace-user machines certainly aren't as popular these days, but they're not as dead-and-buried as you're implying. Just because mainframes are no longer the big cheese doesn't mean that there's no call for multiuser machines.