Please let user choose a username at first setup time

[Seven.of.nine]

Please let the user choose a personal username at initial boot after installation!
Defaultuser is too long to type, and to say it honestly, it’s not a beautiful username. But it’s OK only in case the user doesn’t want to enter a personal username.

[briest]

Yes. Or switch back to nemo, it was perfect: no personal details, short, easy to type and remember, immediately brings “captain” to mind, good name for first user…

[WedgeStratos]

What benefit does this serve?

Last I checked, all applications were programmed with “/home/defaultuser” as the $HOME variable in mind, and the last time a change like this was made (from nemo to defaultuser starting in 3.3) it caused tremendous headaches, requiring updates or symlinking nemo to defaultuser.

And at what points are you needing to even enter “defaultuser” into an application? Once again, what benefit does this serve, and how would it be worth breaking several applications that depend on these defaults?

[ApB]

TBH -and assuming the phone supported avahi (cough cough)- i’d love to connect to it with my_name@my_hostname.local etc as i do to all the stuff around me.

[Seven.of.nine]

@WedgeStratos :

1. Why does an app depend on a username? On my (and on every) Linux computer there are a lot of applications running and none of them are designed for my username on this computer.
2. i have to type ‘defaultuser’ every time I ssh or sftp to the phone from laptop. And that’s quite often.

IMHO better than ‘defaultuser’ is simply ‘user’. So there would be simply ‘user’ (normal user rights) or ‘root’ or ‘devel-su’ for admin (privileged rights).