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by saulpw 674 days ago
The days of multiple family members using the same computer are long gone. Do you ever log into anyone else's desktop/laptop, or does anyone else ever log into yours? That's what I'm getting at.
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Yes, actually. My wife occasionally logs into my desktop and vice versa. But I take your point - it's far less common than it used to be, even if it does still happen.
Yes, my children log into their own accounts to play games and/or do homework on the desktop computer with large monitors and good GPU.
My children all share an unprivileged account on our family desktop computer to play video games, etc.

In addition to this, my wife has an account on the computer which is separate from mine.

I have to clean my grandmas tablet every time my nieces come and screw it up by installing games, moving icons around and setting who knows what.
Right, but you're not logging in to a separate account for that.
A separate account for kids would make this cleanup unnecessary. They don’t want to screw it up for her, they just do what they think will help with their activities.