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@quyksilver5/21/2024, 5:14 PM

Cliff 🦖 Pervocracy @pervocracy

Cliff 🦖 Pervocracy @pervocracy5/21/2024, 4:44 PM

like, ideologically I love the idea of computing and the web being free from corporations and walled gardens

but for 99.9% of Earth's population, computing is when I push the blue F on my phone it opens Facebook

and I understand that making open source software that simple would take a corporation-sized investment, I'm not saying it's easy

but it's annoying to see people not understand that this is what the challenge is

#Oops i ranted

@quyksilver5/21/2024, 5:14 PM

In high school, one time I asked in the Facebook group for the really advanced track cohort I was in for some help with video editing

And someone said she was on the level of 'I click the blue e to open the internet'

I would like to emphasise that these were the most advanced students in the school

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REX @R-E-X5/21/2024, 5:19 PM

for ages now tech companies have followed a paradigm where average user experiences have to be zero onboarding, zero friction no matter what, and anything even slightly more technical gets obfuscated by people who are either really bad at explaining their expertise or are trying to gatekeep it. i often find myself wondering just how intentional that paradigm is, and how much effort goes into maintaining it. it feels like people used to try pressing a button before complaining they didn't know what it does, but i'm not sure when that change happened, or how.

Cliff 🦖 Pervocracy @pervocracy5/21/2024, 5:48 PM

as an Elder Millennial who was allowed to have a computer in my room slightly too early in life, I've definitely gotten that frustration while trying to train people who couldn't conceptualize "when you click save, it saves your file"

but otoh I was looking at this site which is clearly meant to be the most beginner-friendly introduction to Linux humanly possible, and yet it does not address questions like "how do I send an email" or "how do I edit a photo"

which I realize are not rocket science once you actually download a distro and start playing around with it, but the point of this exercise isn't "could average-skill users figure out a few basic tasks in Linux, eventually" it's "what would convince an average-skill user to choose Linux"