Microsoft is not the reason I believe its a pipedream to turn people into computer techs. Its a cold hard reality.

Even particularly smart people have to want to be computer techs. I work with teachers, genuinely smart people, who have zero desire or motivation to learn computer use outside how it can help them teach in a fairly "if its not broke don't fix it" mentality. They aren't incurious but they have limited time and resources and they use such elsewhere. My attempts to get them to even try Linux Mint has thus far failed, the idea that I could get them to learn CLI is absurd.

Don't get me wrong, I believe even dim wits could learn to be computer techs and use a command line, but that requires them to want that. Most people do not intrinsically desire that.

Do you also think that anyone that wants a car should be a mechanic? Anyone that wants a house should be a builder? Anyone that wants to have electricity should be a electrician? Anyone that wants to listen to music should be a musician? Anyone that wants to eat they should learn how to farm? Anyone that wants a drug should be a pharmacist?

People put their time and effort in different things, you might've learned how to program and became tech literate, but that doesn't mean everyone else wants or should do the same.

Sure life would be easier if everyone was an expert in every field, but that's a clearly ridiculous proposition.

Maybe realize the sheer privilege that is wanting everyone to be a "computer tech" just because you are one yourself. Maybe realize that the only reason you can afford to be a "computer tech" is because someone else is a "hardware tech" or a "architecture tech" or a "electricity tech" or whatever else, and those people would likely also want you to be a "tech" in their field so they don't need to make things that "just work" for non-"tech" people.

Then they will never script anything. They will never automate a task themselves. They will only ever operate a computer manually, interactively, rather than programmatically.

Here's the thing.

Most people don't care about automation. They just don't.

The objective of Linux is to put the spoon on the tray of your toddler’s high chair. Linux encourages her to pick it up, poke it at her food, and keep encouraging her to learn, to develop and build on her skills, until she is asking for the fork, the knife.

And your still refusing the point. People don't want a knife and a fork. You can't make them want it. They want something they can intuitively understand. Because to most people, tech is a basic tool to get another job done.

Most people only need a basic hammer, screwdriver, etc...

That's all they need to do what they need day to day to get other things done.

Machinists need more complicated tools with tons of settings, complicated setup and saftey to know. So they spend the time learning. But you don't need a wood shop to hang a picture frame.

This is before we even talk about accessibility. That means much more than large fonts or screen readers. It's also about the fact humans exist on distribution curves in every possible way. For some people, it will just never make sense. No matter what you do. Because it's just not how their brains work. In the same way mine can't do languages very well. It just doesn't click for me. And deep dives into computers wont click for some. Should they never learn to use a computer? Or can they learn basic enough functions from good GUIs to get by.

It's even fine to say linux isn't meant for that. But if you want everyone to get away from macOS and Windows, you need a viable alternative for everyone