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On the other hand it’s so incredibly easy to highlight some text and click search that it it shows a profound lack of curiosity and a lot of laziness.

Not to mention that this approach is so much faster and more effective than asking a question in the comments and waiting for an answer, if anybody answers it at all!

well thankfully it’s not self aware

YEP.

I used to work in a library computer lab. It was soul sucking, how many people older than millennials couldn't friggin handle a basic computer. I heard the words "I clicked the 'E' for 'internet'." multiple times A DAY. (Thanks, 1990's Microsoft and No Child Left Behind.)

"CaNt I jUsT uSe My PhOnE?" (Which would be a million more steps on my part...thanks, 2006 apple, and defunding schools.)

The biggest ragebait for me was "I dOn'T kNoW cOmPuTeRs, I'm oLd ScHoOL."

I'm like "PCs have been increasingly commonplace since the mid-1980's. It's currently the 2020's. You're like 56. HOW 'OLD' IS YOUR SCHOOL?! Because somehow you drove a car here!"

I imagine a certain weird kind of "privilege", to have been able to somehow dodge computers and learning this entire time, when they were so often found in homes, schools, and workplaces.

Like it takes significant effort to somehow avoid even an accidental education. HOW?!

It's...infuriating. These rubes can gleefully scroll tiktok and dump all their personal lives into Facebook, but freak out about sending an email.

Many of them were even around to try the Internet during Eternal September and AOL, and now they've exchanged the squishy fat in their skulls for convenient slop.

I'd bend over backwards to patiently teach, but few cared to learn.

Their collective, willful ignorance is why we're fighting a constant uphill battle against attempts to turn the entirety of computing into nothing but a commercialized authoritarian hellscape.

I left that job because if I heard one more "Kids are born so smart with these computers because my (grand)kids can watch their cocomelons all by themselves." I would've snapped and been booked for assault.

Lol /rant

...clearly this is a button for me...I have sought help in the past...

Some people also don't care much one way or another. If you swap the icons and set the same home screen, they'll happily use any browser.

These days I'd expect large number of people in college to not even know what a file system is. I've read articles where professors complain about this.

No no, not like "NTFS / BTRFS / ReiserFS / TempleFS / EXT4..."

...like..."Folders are how you organize files. And you can rename files. The extension tells you what the file is."

Oh man... I mean, I thought everyone knew about Linux at least. Firefox, I mean, maybe yeah I've definitely met people that don't know about Firefox, but I think a lot of people have at least heard of Linux. No? Damn...

Yeah, like 'google it' instead of 'look it up'

I dont think thats being fair and I dont think that is true. Linux users perceive a video showing real issues on linux to be shitting on linux but do not consider a video that contains windows issues to be shitting on windows.

ArcGIS is the proprietary industry standard, but QGIS is catching up. I personally don't like Arc and have only used it when I was in industry. Even in academia colleges pay for ArcGIS but I just use QGIS.

You can also customize QGIS easily and there're a lot of community plugins. And works well with other open source tools or CLI tools.

Main thing that makes Arc popular in industry is the liability. They can claim they used the best available industry standard software, so the errors are not their fault, and deflect it to the software company. While with open-source alternatives they might be held liable. It's not a problem if the open source is the standard. But that only happens when they were there first, hard to do it otherwise.