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I use Win10 on work and Linux at home. Last week I had to help some "not-so-tech" guy to copy and paste files in the Win11 File Explorer. Now there are just Ico

I use Win10 on work and Linux at home. Last week I had to help some "not-so-tech" guy to copy and paste files in the Win11 File Explorer. Now there are just Icons for copy, paste etc. But there are two kind of computer user. The one who just use the shortcut and the other with the menu. But now they search for "copy" or "paste" but now there is no menu entry. There are just Icons on top of the context menu. So a less technical user has with just Icons a much harder life.

MerelyMortal 5y ago
And the problem with icons is you can no longer tell someone over the phone, "click copy" or "click paste". Now it's something like, "click on the icon that looks like a clip board" or "click on the icon that looks like multiple pieces of paper" followed by "nothing happened" and then trying to figure out that they clicked on the wrong icon because they still couldn't figure out which icon because it wasn't something obvious like text, it was a subjective icon. Maybe some blind people could sue Microsoft? I can only imagine that it has gotten harder for screen reading software.