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This won't matter much to their target user. Anybody who wants more control won't be running Windows 10 or probably running an alternative OS. The target user

This won't matter much to their target user. Anybody who wants more control won't be running Windows 10 or probably running an alternative OS. The target user is not one that knows what this stuff means or at least doesn't care even if they do. "I want to be able to create this month's budget on Excel". Everything else is gibberish. Nor should they. I upgraded my parents to use Android phones. Trying to explain what the permission system is was really challenging. "Write to External Storage" is not a statement that you can explain without mentioning the words SD card and internal storage and difference between them. So I have come to the conclusion that current software paradigms are too difficult to understand for anybody who doesn't do this for a living. I wish there was a platform that is midway between Apple's the user is dumb and Android's everybody is a tech-wizard approach.

rustynails 11y ago
>Anybody who wants more control won't be running Windows 10 or probably running an alternative OS. Please don't confuse more control with privacy. My last foray into Ubuntu and Mint (for more control) was a miserable failure on several levels, so I went back to Microsoft Windows. There are many people that would like an alternative, but Mac OS and Linux aren't suitable (walled garden and stability issues). Having to hack around security concerns is still my preferred alternative at this time.
- arpa 11y ago
  Stability issues? On Linux? Well I'm yet to see a windows box with uptime of two years and everything up-to-date.
Mithaldu 11y ago
> I wish there was a platform that is midway between Apple's the user is dumb and Android's everybody is a tech-wizard approach. The Amiga was a great example of that: https://stiggyblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/workbench-v3_000.png https://stiggyblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/workbench-v3_... The desktop consisted of shortcuts you could put there, but also whatever media were currently inserted in the system. If you removed one, the icon vanished. If you inserted one, the icon disappeared. Thus right from the start the user was trained to see this correlation. Meanwhile on linux and all related OSes the connection is completely invisible unless you go looking, and insertable media are "however your flavor of OS does it", and windows systems hide them in "My Computer" and even in there show drive icons, not icons for the inserted storages.
- _lce0 11y ago
  Teaching to my family to use linux was actually really really simpler .. they can browse pages, install apps, and the like. But they all sooner or later have the same question.. "where's drive C:"? It's not simple to replace 20 years of using a metaphors .. even today we keep using disk for "save" actions

rustynails 11y ago

>Anybody who wants more control won't be running Windows 10 or probably running an alternative OS. Please don't confuse more control with privacy. My last foray into Ubuntu and Mint (for more control) was a miserable failure on several levels, so I went back to Microsoft Windows. There are many people that would like an alternative, but Mac OS and Linux aren't suitable (walled garden and stability issues). Having to hack around security concerns is still my preferred alternative at this time.

arpa 11y ago
Stability issues? On Linux? Well I'm yet to see a windows box with uptime of two years and everything up-to-date.

Mithaldu 11y ago

> I wish there was a platform that is midway between Apple's the user is dumb and Android's everybody is a tech-wizard approach. The Amiga was a great example of that: https://stiggyblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/workbench-v3_000.png https://stiggyblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/workbench-v3_... The desktop consisted of shortcuts you could put there, but also whatever media were currently inserted in the system. If you removed one, the icon vanished. If you inserted one, the icon disappeared. Thus right from the start the user was trained to see this correlation. Meanwhile on linux and all related OSes the connection is completely invisible unless you go looking, and insertable media are "however your flavor of OS does it", and windows systems hide them in "My Computer" and even in there show drive icons, not icons for the inserted storages.

_lce0 11y ago
Teaching to my family to use linux was actually really really simpler .. they can browse pages, install apps, and the like. But they all sooner or later have the same question.. "where's drive C:"? It's not simple to replace 20 years of using a metaphors .. even today we keep using disk for "save" actions