This will certainly affect people that I have installed Ubuntu for who see themeselves as a single user - to choose the second option makes more sense and will make them think they will be able to avoid things like logging in (which most real single users regard as unnecessary hassle, as far as I see)...
In my rather unscientific survey of 3 people who use Ubuntu but don't maintain/know about it 2/3 said they would have chosen single user mode.... This is confusion we can so easily avoid How about 'Maintainence Mode', 'Administration Mode', 'Repair Mode', 'Administrator/Terminal Mode' or 'Root with No Graphics' I prefer the first or last options, presonally -- "Single User mode" should be renamed https://launchpad.net/bugs/62600 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs