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Why does the user need to know about file systems and home directories and symbolic links if all they want is to save a file and then find it later? Do you fee
by CathedralBorrow 7y ago
Why does the user need to know about file systems and home directories and symbolic links if all they want is to save a file and then find it later?
Do you feel the same about cars? Are we dumbing things too much down by making driving as simple as pressing a pedal and moving a steering wheel?
- CamperBob2 7y agoThe "find it later" part is kind of important.
- projektfu 7y agoAgreed. The average user loses a file when it falls out of the recent documents list, so it'd be nice if a power user at least had some clue where it might be found. Windows "search" is also buggered, as mentioned in the article, and only shows a handful of documents and a thousand irrelevant Bing search results when you're looking for a document.
- CathedralBorrow 7y agoOf course. But "remember where you placed the file in this filesystem hierarchy" isn't the only way to accomplish that.