Re:Kids might be digital natives – but a study shows they ar...
by bobthepanda on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @09:15PM
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I think this grossly underestimates how badly people use file systems.
Granted, I would be in the tail end of this theoretical golden age, but I worked in college IT to pay for undergrad in the early-mid 10s at a mid-tier large public university and my job entailed helping out people around my age cohort and adults. We did file backups a lot.
I can safely say that probably 99% of people did not have subfolders and pretty much exclusively used Documents, Downloads and Desktop. Maybe Pictures. Usually with names like paper, paper-1, paper-draft, paper-draft-1, paper-draft-final. I have literally seen desktops filled with icons multiple times over, never organized or cleaned. Almost none of these people have probably seen a command line, and certainly not outside a context where they are following a step by step guide.
If it works for you it isn‘t stupid, but people on HN seem to like to project a very rosy picture of technical literacy in the golden days when very few people probably got to that level.
Granted, I would be in the tail end of this theoretical golden age, but I worked in college IT to pay for undergrad in the early-mid 10s at a mid-tier large public university and my job entailed helping out people around my age cohort and adults. We did file backups a lot.
I can safely say that probably 99% of people did not have subfolders and pretty much exclusively used Documents, Downloads and Desktop. Maybe Pictures. Usually with names like paper, paper-1, paper-draft, paper-draft-1, paper-draft-final. I have literally seen desktops filled with icons multiple times over, never organized or cleaned. Almost none of these people have probably seen a command line, and certainly not outside a context where they are following a step by step guide.
If it works for you it isn‘t stupid, but people on HN seem to like to project a very rosy picture of technical literacy in the golden days when very few people probably got to that level.