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I think when you are such a proficient user of some technology you don't even realize how many mistakes you can make along the way. And some small annoyance tha
by kuboble 3y ago
I think when you are such a proficient user of some technology you don't even realize how many mistakes you can make along the way. And some small annoyance that you don't even notice might be a burden and a day-long struggle for someone less experienced.
As an example of such a behavior on Windows. My customers (too often) complain that my console-based program suddenly stopped and they tried everything and can't make it to restart.
The problem is that they don't realize that selecting some text in the window blocks the stdout and the program won't continue until they remove the selection.
So for a more experienced user it's nothing, but for someone new to terminal behavior it's a huge obstacle.
On Linux you have much more traps like that.
- rendaw 3y agoGP said 15 years though, not exactly someone less experienced.
- dspillett 3y agoI know people who seem to have managed to have the same year of experience 15 times over, learning nothing along the way… Time spent is not necessarily experience, especially if you are trying to do something else at the time. In this case trying to do DayJob so not having time/care to commit much operating system management knowledge to memory, which is more understandable than the people mentioned in my first sentence who were failing to learn what was their job.