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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago (4 children)

We got a new kid around 19 working at our office for processing data and I hate how true this is. The amount of times I've had to say "No, you have to double click to open folders" is entirely too many. Either that or "You have to actually right click on the icon you want to copy you can't just click anywhere on the screen."

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Fuck me I'm not ready for that. You expect it from the old people but I might have to leave the room if a young person asked me something like that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I teach undergrads, and every year basic computer skills get worse and worse. I guess it’s not entirely their fault, but things like just asking them to save a file to their computer is insanely difficult. Lots of universities are starting to get task forces to figure out how to teach (or where to teach rather) basic digital skills, it it’s all going to hit the workforce really soon en masse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Let it all implode. I'm sure the companies will thrive with this reality with the bonus of AI slop on top that all these people will be using and putting in all system across our society.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In high school I had to teach a kid how a mouse worked.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I mean, I know millennials who don't own a computer. Just phones. They got young kids. Not sure if those are alpha at this point or whatever, but how are they supposed to learn it if they got nowhere to practice?

Quite a few working class kids and teens grow up like this.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

You know, I can forgive tech illiteracy. I don't like it, but I can forgive it. What I can't forgive is a basic inability to retain new information.

You gotta teach someone to double click on something to open it? Fine. But you should only have to do that once.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The amount of times I've had to say "No, you have to double click to open folders"

That's a real problem when you're used to Kde and have to use a windows machine.

(Why is this damn thing so slow ? Oooh, right, double click)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can absolutely configure Windows to open folders -- and all other shortcuts -- with a single click, and IIRC one of the knocks against Windows ME was that this was the default option. And it was godawful, along with the "click" noise it made on navigation. (I think it was WinME. I've probably suppressed the memory, and rightly so.)

But the long and short of it is if you want consistency between your UI's in that regard you can indeed have it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I think I tried it years ago. But it didn't really work with the windows ui for some reason. Nowadays I don't use it often enough to bother personalising it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I use KDE Neon and have used Kubuntu before. Double click to open a folder is the default, same as Windows.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It is in the latest versions but it's very recent. The default has always been single click. They changed it because of windows users.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We are getting this teached in 6th grade what country is this from?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That's a BINGO!

(I'm old enough to have received a decent education here and capable of observing the noticeable decline over the past ~30 years)