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One friend of mine told that he read once that kids these days doesn't even know how to create a folder (or directory), is that true?
I was showing a co-op how to do something last year and told them to navigate through our department drive into whatever folder we were looking at.
They couldn't do it. They had somehow managed to get to the department drive in file explorer, but then completely fell apart when I narrated the names of the folders to go down into. Like I'd say "Go into 'desks and tables'" or whatever and I'd watch them drag their cursor past the Ds, past the Es, and then just click on something completely different. Like their brain just stopped working. It took us like 2 minutes to get less than 10 folders deep.
This is the only one of these that I simply do not believe I am genz and admittedly more into computers than average but I have never met anyone who couldn't figure out to right click to make a new folder unless they mean that they didn't know how to use the terminal to do it.
I mean... My Mac M1 doesn't allow right-click create a new file. 😮💨 ! Also, if I recall correctly, there is a similar thing that made me go crazy on Gnome DE.
Nowadays, people hate to get everything neatly separated in a nice and well ordered directory structure. They throw everything in the same directory and use the find/search function, for what it's worth.
I dislike gnome to an unreasonable extent. I tried using it when I first tried linux and it did not vibe.
Gnome had right click --> new folder, but only if you can select the white space, or you can right click the small empty square in the upper right below the top but above the scroll bar.
Haha, some kind of dead DE pixel ? 😅
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Do you know how to create a directory on your phone? Lots of kids have never used a desktop/laptop, just phones and tablets.
Yes.
I mean, so do I, but it's not something I ever needed to do on a phone.
I do.
Yes, files, and hamburger menu at top right, new folder
You mean you don't open the terminal and use mkdir?
Too many letters. md for me 🤪
That can change depending on your file manager, and many OSs do not present the file manager app anywhere but the app list by default, if they even have one.
So our IT guy sent a training memo for a task. Step 1, 2, 3, etc. The one step was go to folder /User, then go to folder yourusername. A young guy emailed back " there is no folder called yourusername".
I explained to IT, some of these people have never navigated a folder structure and don't realize Yourfoldername is meant to be replaced with their own name.
I have this at work with technical people. It's ever so frustrating.
It is true, and I've seen it myself. At first I refused to believe, but sadly we're already at that state.