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I mean people who are literally unable to navigate directories because they drop all their folders on the desktop, and use exclusively Spotlight to find these f
by sodality2 3y ago
I mean people who are literally unable to navigate directories because they drop all their folders on the desktop, and use exclusively Spotlight to find these files. Of course it makes sense to use Spotlight - I use the equivalent on Linux - but I still know how to navigate a directory, unzip a zip file, etc when many people simply never learn that.
- NavinF 3y agoI refuse to believe that a smaller proportion of people know how to navigate a directory and unzip a zip file today compared to any prior year. A lot of people didn't know how to use computers at all a decade ago because they didn't have any kind of computer at home, not even a smart phone
- Master_Odin 3y agoWhen I TAed a CS1 course for a handful of years, I'd definitely say easily like 1/4 of the class would also end up needing a general primer of basic computer usage. Ultimately, some people are just not interested in technology or using it efficiently.
- kortilla 3y agoIt peaked and is in the decline. The number of households with desktops/laptops is in the decline. Fully native tablet+phone is the way a bunch of kids are growing up. Only computer usage in our local public schools is chromebooks.
- NavinF 3y agoI don't believe you. A quick google search finds several charts showing monotonic increase and zero charts that show a decrease. https://www.ibisworld.com/us/bed/percentage-of-households-with-at-least-one-computer/4068/ https://www.ibisworld.com/us/bed/percentage-of-households-wi... https://www.statista.com/statistics/748551/worldwide-households-with-computer/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/748551/worldwide-househo...