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[–] tabular@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It's not always obvious or easy to make what non-techies will find easy. Changes could unintentionally make the experience worse for long-time users.

I know people don't want to hear it but can we expect non-techies to meet techies half way by leveling their tech skill tree a bit?

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I know people don’t want to hear it but can we expect non-techies to meet techies half way by leveling their tech skill tree?

In order to charge her iphone, my mom first turns on airplane mode, and THEN she powers it down. Turns it off completely. I asked why she does any of that. She says "Because they won't flip the charge switch for me until they do! I wish I could take the battery out first, and THEN turn off the phone. But I suppose if they can't see my battery with airplane mode on first, this is just as good."

And you want this woman to learn terminal?

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Learning is difficult but I have to believe it is still part of the solution.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Why would she ever need to use a terminal?

I imagine she'd be doing normal computer stuff, not writing bash scripts.

I swear half the criticism of Linux I see online is based on people thinking Linux has remained unchanged for the past 16 years.

I don't even have a terminal app installed. It's not required for anything I do on my PC.