This week was all about the quality of life features! As we close in on Plasma 6.2 (the soft feature freeze is in four days, eek!), some great work that’s been in progress for a long time got…
I think an issue is, this sets up your computer to have a way to bypass putting your password in on boot. If you don’t care about security too much and don’t have things like secure boot and encryption, then that’s bypassable anyways… But otherwise, I’d be concerned about introducing systems that specifically bypass security.
As long as you have to put in your password when you enable this I feel like it’s fine. There’s plenty of times, especially on Linux, where the user has to bypass security limitations to do this (sudo being the most obvious example)
I think an issue is, this sets up your computer to have a way to bypass putting your password in on boot. If you don’t care about security too much and don’t have things like secure boot and encryption, then that’s bypassable anyways… But otherwise, I’d be concerned about introducing systems that specifically bypass security.
As long as you have to put in your password when you enable this I feel like it’s fine. There’s plenty of times, especially on Linux, where the user has to bypass security limitations to do this (sudo being the most obvious example)