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Just say no to Linus and his opinions ....

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

I especially always find these design decisions difficult, because most noobs actually do a perfectly fine job navigating their computers without randomly clicking on every button nor changing every setting.

It's basically designing your software, so that 5% of users cannot fuck up in 0.1% of situations.
And those exact users usually have someone to help them with their computer anyways.