Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Sun, 8 Dec 2024 03:02:20 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:
 

Yup.  If they learn the handholding GUI, all they know is that exact
handholding GUI.  Flip them to a different GUI, or if V3 of that GUI
changes, and they are lost again.

 
Then they are very poor at generalization. My various machines have
Ubuntu, Fedora KDE spin, Lubuntu, Debian with Xfce, the Raspberry Pi OS
derivative of Debian, and Windows 11. They're all different and they are
all the same.

You must not have had much experience with helping out 'typical users'
(i.e., often those who "just want to get their job X done on this dang
computer").

Move a button 40 pixels in any cardinal direction on their GUI, but
otherwise leave the label unchanged, and 40% of those users will be
unable to function until someone else shows them the new location of
the button.

A huge number of folks get by via little more than rote memorization
for computer usage, and seemingly have zero ability to generalize.