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I feel like describing the application installation process is being obtuse. The installation process can basically be distilled to copying the app to your loca
by dfxm12 5y ago
I feel like describing the application installation process is being obtuse. The installation process can basically be distilled to copying the app to your local desktop. Counting closing windows among the steps? How will anyone figure that one out?! Even if you can't, it's easy to understand and remember after you do it once.
Anyway, going back many, many years, I feel like there was a time where if you gave a mac or a windows computer to someone who had never used a computer before, they'd more easily understand OSX (or even going back to system 7) before they understood Windows.
The OSX experience today is pretty much the same as Windows though, and most people nowadays "learn computers" from their parents' OSX or Android devices, so, new users' intuition is nurtured by the time they get behind a mouse and keyboard.
- FabHK 5y agoI agree, though have to add that it adds stumbling blocks to people that don't come with the implicit knowledge (that was a matter of course when everything worked with floppy disks). I have seen people start the application directly from the disk image always, and accumulating mounted disk images that they don't unmount/delete.