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    submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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    [–] [email protected] 153 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    As someone who worked (trying to) teaching people how to use computers, I can tell you that windows isn't user friendly. People just got used to it. I had a far easier job when teaching how to use android and a gnome gui.

    [–] Soup 62 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I love I have to distinguish between Windows settings and “no, old Windows settings. Go to the control panel” where they haven’t changed it since XP or whatever but you need it for some stuff.

    [–] mkwt 34 points 6 months ago

    Some of those dialog boxes have not changed a bit since Windows 3.0.

    [–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Android user experience depends heavily on apps. Most of the popular apps changed their UI many time over the past decade. Getting people especially the elderly to frequently learn these changes is not a feature of a good UI.
    (Remember what Microsoft did with Windows 8)

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Can't agree more. People get so confused because of those random significant changes out of nowhere. Software companies don't seem to do any long-term planning or previous research on usability, and treat their apps like playgrounds, forgetting that a LOT of people rely on them, most without high tech skills.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

    I only realized today samsung had changed their previous night mode/Grey shade mode to theater mode. But could only do that from watch because I had somehow turned it on while sleeping

    [–] Shady_Shiroe 8 points 6 months ago

    Microsoft jumped the gun and thought everyone would be working off of phones, like bro imagine programming on a phone keyboard