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[-] Sekki@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I dont think I overestimate peoples technical skills. Just a week ago I had to explain to my university lecturer how to mirror screens and the concept of having multiple screens was just as new as using them for the same thing at once. Thing is that the design for a lot of functions is the same in linux and windows. Some examples: Search menu, right click, desktop, files, drag and drop, task bar and its widgets and application shortcuts. Sure there are many differences too but I would argue that using some sort of app store is easier than finding an executable online. What I want to say is: For very basic usage like using a web browser or searching files you will have the same or very simila patterns between OSs.

[-] kernelle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah I agree with everything you said. But unless laptops start shipping with a fully open-source Linux distro, you will never see a technically illiterate person use one.

The only significant change within OS distribution in the last 10 years was the rise of ChromeOS, and that's only because of Google making sure they are dirt cheap and marketing the ever-loving shit out of them.

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