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This problem is real and important. My uncle who is a lawyer knew how to use dBase IV in the 80s. Nowadays young people, even university graduates, struggle to
by cblconfederate 6y ago
This problem is real and important. My uncle who is a lawyer knew how to use dBase IV in the 80s. Nowadays young people, even university graduates, struggle to use a mouse. Scrolling is the pinnacle of competence it seems.
We need people going back to buying PC. Thanks to corona, they do now. We should focus on those rich-capability apps and software
- afavour 6y ago> Nowadays young people, even university graduates, struggle to use a mouse I'm sorry, I laughed out loud at this. What are you talking about?!
- spiznnx 6y agoI think most people use laptops over desktops as their primary computer, so some younger people may have only used touchpads over mouses. Though I don't really pay attention to people's mousing skills.
- ThrowawayR2 6y agoI assume they are referring to the now omnipresent tablets and phones that younger folks have grown up with in lieu of a home computer.
- evan_ 6y agoDoes using a mouse have something to do with general purpose computing? Does a spreadsheet program? You should ask your uncle (who's a Lawyer by the way) if he was using a mouse to work with dBase IV.
- brutusborn 6y agoHow can you struggle to use a mouse?
- cblconfederate 6y agoMany people dont know right click. many people never use laptops, or rarely, they own a $1000 phone and a $200 crappy laptop. You struggle if you ve never used it before
- ryukafalz 6y agoBut... a mouse has two buttons on it. Surely in the normal process of using it you'll eventually try pressing the second one? Even if you don't know what it does at the start, you try things when you're getting acquainted with something new.
- cblconfederate 6y agoDon't Macs have 1 button?
- ryukafalz 6y agoYes, that's true, with a touch-sensitive surface to distinguish between left and right clicks. That does make them less discoverable than a traditional mouse.
- asdff 6y agoTell that to the zoomer at work who I had to teach how right click copied and pasted text. When you grow up on iPads and iPhones instead of laptops and desktops, this is what happens. The next generation aren't digital natives. They are coddled from the real experience by the actual digital natives who write their software for them. A true digital native knows how to chop their own wood, imo.