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Re:Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hack... by NavinF on Friday September 29, 2023 @12:31PM (#37706611)
> some 18yo's don't even know how files work because they just use Mac's Finder

Huh? Finder is the macos equivalent of explorer.exe and it's the GUI for the file system. I assume you're taking about Spotlight which searches the entire file system and the internet much like the Windows start menu.

Anyway people have been making claims like this for as long as computers have been around. Smart people use Spotlight and the start menu because it requires fewer keystrokes than typing full paths or clicking 10 times to navigate a directory tree with Finder. It would be stupid to avoid using the fastest tools available

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Re:Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hack... by sodality2 on Friday September 29, 2023 @12:33PM (#37706638)
I mean people who are literally unable to navigate directories because they drop all their folders on the desktop, and use exclusively Spotlight to find these files. Of course it makes sense to use Spotlight - I use the equivalent on Linux - but I still know how to navigate a directory, unzip a zip file, etc when many people simply never learn that.
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Re:Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hack... by NavinF on Friday September 29, 2023 @12:37PM (#37706697)
I refuse to believe that a smaller proportion of people know how to navigate a directory and unzip a zip file today compared to any prior year. A lot of people didn't know how to use computers at all a decade ago because they didn't have any kind of computer at home, not even a smart phone
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Re:Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hack... by Master_Odin on Friday September 29, 2023 @03:13PM (#37708877)
When I TAed a CS1 course for a handful of years, I'd definitely say easily like 1/4 of the class would also end up needing a general primer of basic computer usage.

Ultimately, some people are just not interested in technology or using it efficiently.

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Re:Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hack... by kortilla on Friday September 29, 2023 @06:44PM (#37710969)
It peaked and is in the decline. The number of households with desktops/laptops is in the decline. Fully native tablet+phone is the way a bunch of kids are growing up. Only computer usage in our local public schools is chromebooks.
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Re:Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hack... by NavinF on Friday September 29, 2023 @10:08PM (#37712222)
I don't believe you. A quick google search finds several charts showing monotonic increase and zero charts that show a decrease.

https://www.ibisworld.com/us/bed/percentage-of-households-wi...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/748551/worldwide-househo...

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