I'm amused by the thought that, like the famous legend about the QWERTY keyboard, the mouse is designed to slow us down and distract us from how slow and delicate the computer is. Since 1983, we are still guiding the computer through a series of tiny little steps in order to get anything done, while the real shame is that even after 35+ years, we still can't tell the computer what we want in natural language.

Of course I realize the mouse has its uses.

Since I recently started using Linux for some things, I've noticed a difference in online commentary about how to use it. In Windows, the instructions for installing a software app are many pages of pictures, with circles and arrows, and a paragraph of text for each one. When the OS changes some of its menus, the documentation is obsolete and you have to guess what you're actually supposed to do.

Instructions for Linux are a few lines of text that you copy into your terminal. Now more and more instructions for Windows are going that way: Press Windows-cmd, enter some text, press return, done.