• tiredofsametab@fedia.io
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    I started on Commodore (Vic20 that I don’t remember much, C64, and A500) mostly with a tiny bit of Atari and then was on Windows at home for decades (I tried installing Linux (Mandrake and Redhat) back when it fit on a floppy, but without a lot of success). I guess I’m too old and not neurotypical enough?

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    Run a second correlation on the incomes of these families and the tech literacy of their children and see what you find. I have a hypothesis.

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    I’m curious what her hypothesis is, I don’t think there is a correlation at all personally, seen a ton of people who know nothing about their computers regardless of Mac/Windows as their primary os.

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    The thing with Macs is you don’t have to spend 80% of your time troubleshooting them. I love my Mac and OS X. I boot it up, log in, and don’t have to think about it. The UI is very intuitive and easy to use as well.

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    I grew up on Mac and only switched to Windows when I was 30. lol

    I still wonder what Linux is like… It’s probably cool.

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      Is the hypothesis that Windows being constantly broken forces you to learn how to fix it ? Because that’s kinda what happened to me 😆

      I’d add that PCs also had great gaming, which also encourages upgrading, and PCs have always offered more options for upgrading. You learn a lot and can break a lot doing that, both of which add to the experience.

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      I mean, I managed to fuck up my Windows 95 just by installing a couple of games. God knows how that happened.

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    My first experience with Linux was at 10 years old or so. I had a netbook that I’d installed Ubuntu on.

    Flash forward nearly 14 years and I use Arch as pretty much a daily driver these days.

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    I just want to point out that I was somewhat tech literate in the 2000s. and The Mac OS still scared me.

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    I learned because I was torrenting and broke the family windows computer. It was either fix it or get grounded.