Ummm... It doesn't seem all that different to me, but OK. It's a bit wierd to be installing the root-enabler; my expectation would have been that root is naturally accessible, but that you have to install xterm to make use of it. (As xterm is not of horribly much use without root access.) Either way, I have to make some installation/reconfiguration to convert a consumer appliance into a computer; to me, that's expected.

(Oh, and if you want Nokia's reasoning for keeping root access locked down, I think it's cause there are no other good options without requiring every user to be aware of root's existence by setting the root password on initial setup. But you seem to be cool with some default lockdown, just concerned with how it's to be gotten around.

Your suggestion that it should be "the same as with other Linux distros" assumes homogeneity of those other distros. In reality, they range from

• running as root normally (Lindows; I don't know if recent versions of Linspire are still like that)
• giving you sudo all/nopasswd/all (but not su, to encourage only doing the one thing that needs root as root) (Ubuntu)
• Conventional UNIX behavior, su and you need the root password (Slackware)

We seem to have fallen a little off the "safe" end of the spectrum, but it doesn't seem that hard to start opening things up.

I don't need to change my browser font very often; it wouldn't bother me if it took a half hour, really. Now, terminal font, that's another story. And fortunately, once I found about fc-cache, it's easy and painless.

It quickly becomes obvious that microb is missing any sensible configuration method; you can either go to about:config, or you can settle for the three-checkboxes preferences dialog. And that's a sad failing, even though I'd be using such config for lots of other stuff, not for fonts.