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Its really not. Most people dont do it because they dont care.
It's not hard for tech savvy people. It is for people who aren't tech savvy.
I hear the argument you're making all the time and it's like a multilingual person telling a uniligual adult that learning a new language isn't that hard, and that unilingual people just don't care enough to learn.
It's clearly a way for tech savvy people to inflate their ego and look down on most users, and I say this as a fairly tech savvy person. I'm in good shape but for me to say overweight people just don't care enough to get healthy is a gross oversimplification. This is no different.
edit: I gotta ask, did anyone in this thread who is arguing that Linux is easy to install actually watch this guy's full video? Because he makes a number of great points that just go completely unaddressed by the Linux stans here.
@MerchantsOfMisery @krolden this. I am the only remotely tech savvy person in my workplace - non tech savvy people take much longer to do the same work as tech savvy workers because they haven't had similar educational opportunities. They're self conscious, petrified that they'll make a mistake that they don't know how to fix, and absolutely do not have time to work out how to install an OS when they don't even know what OS stands for.
@MerchantsOfMisery @krolden like, people do not know the difference between a search engine and a web browser; the knowledge discrepancy between most people and the tech savvy is often so profound that we are utterly unqualified to decide what is easy and what isn't. This is why professional teams use usability studies and not their own intuition to inform UI design decisions.
@MerchantsOfMisery @krolden And when education is available to people, the focus is on step-by-step instructions for proprietary software, not on recognizing common design patterns or understanding the computer itself. And then we wonder why personal computing is disappearing in favor of expensive and exploitative SAAS solutions as we send users who take the initiative to ask for help to LMGTFY...
FYI When you reply to people on Lemmy they get your message in the replies section. You don't need to @ people specifically.
Unless he's using Mastodon. Then the mentions are automatically added. Depends on the client he's using.
@kromonos @mekhos I am using mastodon :) Signed up for lemmy.ml today so hopefully I can avoid that in future.
The worst part about people like that is that their inability to comprehend basic computer usage doesn't stop them from ranting about immigrants on Facebook.
I am firmly in the camp of the internet being too inclusive. Make it a bit difficult to use again and maybe people will stop being idiots on whatever "app" they use.
Do you not think that maybe their lack of computer skill makes it difficult for them to know what sources to trust, or even what the source of a instaTwitBook timeline post is? Do you not suppose that this may make people easy targets for misinformation?
That's more of a genrral lack of awareness rather than a lack of computer skills.