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Techy people are a lot more likely to jump through a couple of hoops for something better, compared to your average Joe who isn't even aware of the problem
Techy people are a lot more likely to jump through hoops because that knowledge/experience makes it easier for them, they understand it's worthwhile or because it's fun. If software can be made easier for non-techy people and there's no downsides then of course that aught to be done.
Ok, now tell the linux people this.
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?
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?
I’m sorry, but could you please elaborate? I’m not being facetious, I truly don’t understand what she’s saying/doing.
She thinks that if she just plugs in the plug to charge it, that the people at appleHQ won't let her phone charge because they don't like her. So she first turns on airplane mode, so that they have no communication with her phone, and can't see what she's doing. THEN she turns OFF the phone, so that her phone won't know it's her charging it.
Yes, I realize NONE of that makes sense. At all. That's kind of my point that she's not going to be learning anything new about technology. I just nod my head, yes mom, the people at appleHQ can't see you now.....go ahead and charge your phone.....
While rolling my eyes internally.
I wonder if this is a weird abstraction of the news a few years ago about Apple throttling phones as the battery capacity degrades, or possibly because of the new smart charging that iOS does when it recognizes a pattern and particular charger and limits charge current for overnight charging, which helps maintain capacity.
Or are there just insane Facebook people making this shit up.
Learning is difficult but I have to believe it is still part of the solution.
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.
Yeah that was kinda my point