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> I can understand why people hate tech. To add to that, now that I'm a retired lifelong techie I realize why "old folks" back in the day would hesitate to giv
by canada_dry 6y ago
> I can understand why people hate tech.
To add to that, now that I'm a retired lifelong techie I realize why "old folks" back in the day would hesitate to give up the old, outdated software that they knew how to use.
E.g. I'd prod older friends and family to give up wordperfect - which they knew and loved - in order to progress to the feature-rich-new MS WORD.
Now I'm a linux advocate with its archaic terminal commands and I can empathize with anyone who wants their laptop, phone, TV, microwave, etc. to stop evolving!!
- samatman 6y agoWater under the bridge now, but I bet you did some of them a real disservice. Wordperfect had "reveal codes", so when the WYSIWYG gave you something you didn't want, you could pop open the actual document representation and wrangle the tags until you What You Want Is What You See. MS Word has no such function, so when it screws you, and it does, you're good and screwed.
- canada_dry 6y agoWell, since I was their go-to tech support I paid the price! re: Reveal codes - not being able to press ALT F3 and cleanup the formatting mess that MS WORD would inevitably get into was torture!
- pvorb 6y agoLinux is also far from stable. There is the mess that is Linux desktops like Gnome 2, Gnome 3, Unity (okay, this was only an Ubuntu escapade). The init system changed and the result is that you have to think about things you usually don't want to. There's things like Snap and Flatpack, which pretend to make things easier, but ultimately lead to more complexity...