> he may love fiddling with settings, but the vast majority of people do not. Funny how often this gets repeated. Usually (as here) with a conspicuous lack of

> he may love fiddling with settings, but the vast majority of people do not. Funny how often this gets repeated. Usually (as here) with a conspicuous lack of supporting data. > They do not change their mouse speed, their background image, their default browser. That's why a meme exists of people thinking the internet is the blue E icon on their desktop. Could just as well be -- and, I think, is -- the other way around: It's not that they're ignorant because they don't change their settings, but that they don't change their settings because they're ignorant. Maybe most (or even all) of them would want to change their mouse speed, background image, and default browser, if only they knew there are settings to do it. Removing the settings wouldn't exactly help with that -- on the contrary, the solution would be to make them more obvious.