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From: Rich <rich@example.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2024 16:33:14 -0000 (UTC)
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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.