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Too real (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 12 points 5 months ago (1 child)

common commands like alt+tab, clipboards and their uses, or basic understanding of the difference between an operating system, a system program, and a hierarchical file system… and people still struggle to use the mouse.

Not to larp on the younger generations, but interacting with computers through touch screens is likely a major culprit here. Why would you know how to navigate file structures, or even open a terminal, when they were given an iPad when they were 5 years old?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    The way programs are presented on a touch screen, and the actions they are taking inside of an application also being very fundamentally different in a gui sense, is surely to blame. I'm not upset about someone's lack of understanding in that, really, in the sense of a generation alpha, but millenials, who had computer classes in just about every school in america thanks to apple and microsoft competing to get them hooked, give me major grumbles.

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