• richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one
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    11 months ago

    OTOH, many people can’t make heads from tails regarding windows, icons or buttons, and they don’t get the contextual clues that the GUI gives for any operating system. They don’t see them, and if they do they’re unable to make the automatic inferences most of us long time users obtain from them. They act as people who are blind from birth and suddenly see, who have problems to understand tridimensionality; the GUI is not in their mind model of how to work with computers, and they have a lot of difficulty interacting with it.

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      11 months ago

      So that makes the “get good” advice valid? What are you talking about bro? I didn’t say Linux isn’t valid. I think you must have replied to me specifically on accident because your response isn’t germane to my reply. Or if you feel it is please explain. Make sure you use as many polysyllabic words as possible. I think you wrote up one of the Linux documents I’m to understand.

      Or maybe I’ll just say: cool story bro.

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        10 months ago

        So that makes the “get good” advice valid?

        No, they’re untrainable. It’s literally impossible for them to get any good. At all.

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              10 months ago

              You have completely lost the plot. This topic is about Windows and Linux ease of use. I don’t know what you’re talking about anymore.

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      11 months ago

      Is your point meant to be that these people who already have trouble learning GUIs would somehow have an easier time intuiting command line?

      If that’s correct, that’s an absolutely BS argument

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        10 months ago

        Is your point meant to be that these people who already have trouble learning GUIs would somehow have an easier time intuiting command line?

        No, my point is that they’re lost causes and they’re untrainable.

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          10 months ago

          No, my point is that they’re lost causes and they’re untrainable.

          Ah… I still don’t get how that’s meant to refute the previous person’s point that elitism and the “git gud” attitude around Linux contributes to it’s inability to become mainstream.

          If anything your reply only reinforces their point, because you seem to be suggesting we throw anybody who struggles to learn it to the curb.