On Fri, 2022-10-07 at 01:23 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > On Thu, 2022-10-06 at 06:29 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > The difference between the technology and quality > > of Fedora and Windows will make your head spin. > > As I have stated before, I wish I had more > > Linux customers. Linux is just fun to work on. > > Windows is such a house of cards. And I am > > FULLY AWARE that I would not have a job if it > > was not for M$'s poor quality. > > I used to un-munge people's windows boxes, but got out of that game > when I got into Linux. I tell them I don't do it any more, and say > it's like being asked to unblock someone's sewer pipes with your bare > hands. > > It's not *just* that the hardware and software shoots itself in the > foot from time to time, which most definitely does, people *also* do > daft things with it. > > A very large part of the problem is that it's foisted upon people (at > work) with no aptitude for computing, and possibly managed by one of > them as well. And it's little different for home users. I don't > know > why people with no interest in computing get themselves a home PC. > > Even those who don't stuff it up are so inept at using it that they > barely use any of the features, and use things in the most convoluted > and awkward manners. I've seen plenty who can't look at two files, > they have to open one, read it, close it, open the other file. They > can't manage to have two windows open, nor even know that they can. > And those who can't copy and paste, they open a webpage, save it as a > file, close the browser, open their word processor, load the page, > spend ages trying to edit the bit they want. Then if they want more > info, they go through whole shenanigans again (quit wordprocessor, > open > browser, safe, quit browser, start word processor, etc). It's like > watching someone bash a square peg into a round hole. Getting a bit OT but here goes: You often hear that MacOS is easier. My experience is that it's not. More reliable certainly (it's based on UNIX after all), but people with no mental model of what's actually happening still have trouble with it. A lot of the current yoof don't have computers but do have smartphones. Recently I was speaking to a family member who teaches music at a local college. He described how his students send him messages: * Write message on paper * Place paper on some uniform background (e.g. their jeans) * Open Instagram * Take photo * Share Instagram photo with correspondent Words fail me. They can't even open the camera app without using Instagram :-) poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
