Re:How Intuitive Are Macs Really?
by don-code on Monday May 24, 2021 @11:32AM
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This seems on point. The conversation at the dawn of personal computing would have been:
> Where's file X for project A?
> On the floppy disk for project A.
And that more or less continued for most users through the 90s, but then it got confusing to the entry-level user:
> Where's file X for project A?
> In My Documents, under the folder "Project X".
Which, I'd bet, is one of the reasons why cloud-based editors have taken off - the file is "in Google Docs", rather than in a directory hierarchy on the filesystem. GDocs presents me with a more or less flat view of all of my documents. I hate this - I have to go over to Google Drive to organize them - but I can understand how it'd be much more approachable to the average user.
> Where's file X for project A?
> On the floppy disk for project A.
And that more or less continued for most users through the 90s, but then it got confusing to the entry-level user:
> Where's file X for project A?
> In My Documents, under the folder "Project X".
Which, I'd bet, is one of the reasons why cloud-based editors have taken off - the file is "in Google Docs", rather than in a directory hierarchy on the filesystem. GDocs presents me with a more or less flat view of all of my documents. I hate this - I have to go over to Google Drive to organize them - but I can understand how it'd be much more approachable to the average user.