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Re:Sir Clive Sinclair has died by Cthulhu_ on Friday September 17, 2021 @05:23AM (#28563054)
I grew up with a PC and that already wasn't as straightforward; we were Told in no uncertain terms that we should make sure to use the 'shut down' option in the menu or else Bad Things would happen (= disk parking). And changes in the system were permanent, so I never really experimented with the computer until my mid-to-late teens when I went to school for computer stuff - my dad was the expert until then.
Re:Sir Clive Sinclair has died by noneeeed on Friday September 17, 2021 @05:33AM (#28563124)
I saw something similar with my gf in uni. She hadn't had a computer at home and she was really intimidated by the computers there. It wasn't just because she was unused to them, but she was petrified of breaking them. It wasn't until I let her use mine and got her to relax about breaking it that she really started to learn how to use them properly.