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Don't be so elitist. "Back in the old days", computers were a niche item that only called to enthusiasts. Now they're an everyday appliance. It's like calling
by vacri 10y ago
Don't be so elitist. "Back in the old days", computers were a niche item that only called to enthusiasts. Now they're an everyday appliance.
It's like calling people lazy because they call a refrigeration technician to fix their fridge rather than do it themselves. Computers are ridiculously complex, and you need a ton of knowledge to even start troubleshooting any but the most trivial problem.
- ekianjo 10y agoI'm not elitist at all. I am simply pointing the fact that someone who has an attention span of 2 minutes and refuses to search for help when facing an unfamiliar situation has a problem in the first place. Let's not try to make everyone believe that our machines are the issue, where the issue is clearly cultural before everything else.
- thomasz 10y agoMost of the old os related pain points have become rather trivial, like installing peripheral hardware, upgrading software and searching for stuff. 95% of the remaining complexity comes from applications, not the OS. They wont go away by porting those applications to html5.