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from the it's-2015-and-things-are-easy dept.
I remember a story on the other site years ago when, following the Mojave Experiment, some guys did their own Folgers Test, asking people what they thought of this new (unidentified) UI and most of those folks thought it (KDE) was just more of Redmond's stuff.
Now, there's this story from OpenSource.com.
- Linux is so easy, anyone can install it--even by accident
One day, [...] a user's Windows install went corrupt on her laptop and she accidentally installed Linux. When her laptop couldn't [load the OS] from the hard drive, it automatically booted [to] the network. When she got the PXE install menu, she just hit Enter, installing a Linux desktop with all of our default network security settings and applications.
She then logged into it with her network account and emailed me to say that her Windows had updated and she wanted to know why her Microsoft Office looked so different now and "Where did Outlook go?" We had a good laugh over how Linux is so easy you can install and configure it by accident now, even on a laptop.
Hat tip to Robert Pogson for spotting this. The comment by IT pro oiaohm is, as always, insightful (once you adjust for his dyslexia).
(Score: 4, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Sunday October 25 2015, @12:20AM
I agree with you. To be a little more specific though, people should be taught computer software concepts, rather than rote tasks. Every piece of software probably has a different set of terms for specific actions, say for example, formatting the margins of a page. Instead of teaching people that in Z application, you click menu-page-settings, you teach them to look for terms that suggest they are about making such changes. Might be "format page" or "page format" or "formatting" or "margins" or whatever. A person who knows how to do that in one specific program and who is rigidly married to that process, is just a meat robot. A person who can self-navigate a new piece of software has valuable skills.