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Microsoft causes learned helplessness (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Giving effective error codes is the opposite of unhelpful
Users who can't figure out the underlying logic behind a GUI aren't exactly going to thrive in a CLI environment
The dominance of Office is because it's better than its competitors, and because getting businesses to change literally anything they do is near impossible. SPSS isn't even a Microsoft product.
Troubleshooting on Linux certainly never involves "edit this root-owned file buried 6 layers deep in a cubby hole you never knew existed", and it never involves "run this .sh script lol".

This is an absolutely insane take

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The dominance of Office is because it’s better than its competitors, and because getting businesses to change literally anything they do is near impossible. SPSS isn’t even a Microsoft product.

Also, because of the whole Open Office clusterfuck. People still download that shit not realizing it hasn't been supported in years and haven't heard of Libre Office. It leaves them thinking FOSS sucks because of a bad experience.

Most people who can't afford Microsoft Office just use Google Docs anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yup. It's actually quite ironic that this person is advocating to learn how operating systems work, but has seemingly refused to learn the slightest bit about the Windows ecosystem.