Because for many decades nearly everyone in the UK watched all the same TV. What was specific in the UK, compared to other countries, was there were only ~4 channels to choose from most of that time. And those few channels got huge budgets to work with. You can tell from the quality of the advertising, unlike the trash commercials in countries with 20 plus channels. Unpredictable UK weather too helped people sit down in front of the box. Long running soaps were treated as real life. Everyone saw the same comedies, and told the same jokes and catch phrases. If ever there was a hive mind, that was it. It's probably coming to a close now. But the damage is done. And it's good night from me. And good night from him!

You can be sure Microsoft was working its utmost hardest to make this not work, and make it look bad. All the more reason to get away from them as fast as possible.

The best way is to stop using office documents altogether. It's legacy computing that at shouldn't be needed any more.

Well that escalated quickly!

This is one if those last gasp things where old tech has the odd last minute resurgence, before being consigned to vintage car shows. As more and more people prefer the latest technology, and don't want out of date, old tech dumped on them for stock clearance. Old fossil huggers will eventually die and their kids won't know what to do with those funny old, complicated, vintage contraptions that you can't get stuff for anymore. This is always how it goes in a transition period. Dragged out longer by corrupt old grifters.

I don't think it's the boomers holding us back. It's the lack of better alternatives to the junk systems we have today. We will see institutions switching from commercial crap to open source copies of that commercial crap. As if we're still living in the paper world. The users are just the victims.

Computer scientists maybe. But real scientists know the meaning of the word average. And that out of, say, 1000 users, possibly only one is average.

I guess it's hard to know the ratio of GUI to CLI users on Linux these days. Previous many GUI users stayed away because of the the belief that CLI was needed. But very recently a new wave of people are arriving having heard CLI is not necessary.

I don't work in IT. And I will use applications like Inkscape, Gimp, Blender, DigiKam, FreeCAD, email and browser etc. So CLI doesn't do anything that I need. All these apps benefit from full screen use. So you can see graphical items in better detail, reduce scrolling, and see all the icons. So tiling windows are not much help. Its important to launch and switch apps quickly. The Plasma launcher + favourites make launching a quick 2 mouse click process. And the mouse is used for productive operation of the desktop.

I'm lazy too. But my push-button espresso machine takes coffee beans instead of landfill. And has no paper filter. Only coffee grounds to go in the bio degradable waste.

Sure, a case for pods, is a seldom used machine in an unmanned hotel room. But that is better solved with sachets of instant coffee and a kettle. In someone's home, show visitors what a polluting jerk you are.

Pod coffee machines are a businesses dream. Lock in the customers. And then don't care about the plastic and foil waste per cup you create in order to do this. No surprise if they do other bad things. Visiting friends and they show you their pod machine? Ask them what happens with the used pod? Do them a favour and tell them there is a better way. Such as coffee machines that you put beans in. No not Heinz baked beans you moron! Coffee beans that produce only bio degradable waste. And freshly ground tastes great. No chemicals added.

Wasting your internet is trivial compared to the landfill waste created.

This is partly down to human nature. Some people make it easy for newbies and listen to them. And others get off on talking down to people. For them, a newbie is a great target. Worse if that newbie is not there to learn to be an IT pro. Just wants to use Linux as a user.

For example, just ask for a GUI solution to a problem, and you will see some CLI pros rush to answer. Even though they have no clue about the relevant GUI nor about usability. Thank them and say you really are looking for the GUI solution, and you will sometimes get a diatribe about that Linux is all about the power of the CLI, and it goes on to get quite tedious and gatekeepery. For some, the rejection is a trigger.

If you are an IT pro, you might not encounter this if you don't specifically ask for the GUI way. And maybe come to believe the community is all wonderful.

There is basically nothing for people's information today. The digital landscape is a disaster.

Lots of people require basic level functionality. Often one or more lists with a few columns and some adding up. Spreadsheets designed for serious users are not very good at that. As you need data integrated into other things not separated in another application. More than 1 list is a pain as you can't move them freely as cell sizes must line up so they mess the other one up. They can't be overlapped or separated easily. Most users are not finance wizards. But the world of open standards is so screwed up that there is no decent way to handle information. Silos are to be avoided too. So it's hard to find an alternative to suffering using the wrong tool. Microsoft doesn't care about users. And open source is focussed on the IT side and not on users.