I’ll concede that Windows’ shittiness taught me some things, but I don’t think it actually taught me much that was useful because of how opaque and poorly designed it was. Like, yeah I could edit registry keys and I know what A:\ and C:\ were, but that stuff doesn’t mean shit outside of Windows. It was mainly the abstraction gained by moving away from Windows that actually taught me stuff.
Not dumb, tech illiterate. Some of the smartest people I know are completely tech illiterate, especially when it comes to tasks that don’t involve using a web browser.
As a computer scientist and UX designer, I think people in the tech sector are way too hard on users for not understanding the tech they’re using. Tech illiteracy is often a side-effect of good UX design. You don’t need to know how something works if using it is intuitive.
Windows has terrible UX, and Apple’s is a lot better, so it makes sense that Apple users wouldn’t need to get into the details of how their device works as much. That said, I have no love for Apple. I still think their UX is pretty bad, even while admitting that it’s more or less the best that’s currently out there.
On the other side of things, a bunch of the most tech literate programmers I know use Apple computers because it’s basically commercial linux that lets you use adobe products and such.
That is true. The biggest pain point for me switching to Linux was losing Adobe’s suite of software.
Personally I just wish there was an OS that let you have control over your devices, freedom to customize things, and a consistently clean UX. Sadly the corporate world will never allow that, so…you win some you lose some.
My biggest gripe with Apple for coding is the constant mixup of the Command and Control keys when I’m switching between my work laptop and my PC.
Apple users are dumb. Or some other bs
“Windows sucks so much it forces you to learn how stuff works”
I’ll concede that Windows’ shittiness taught me some things, but I don’t think it actually taught me much that was useful because of how opaque and poorly designed it was. Like, yeah I could edit registry keys and I know what A:\ and C:\ were, but that stuff doesn’t mean shit outside of Windows. It was mainly the abstraction gained by moving away from Windows that actually taught me stuff.
Not dumb, tech illiterate. Some of the smartest people I know are completely tech illiterate, especially when it comes to tasks that don’t involve using a web browser.
As a computer scientist and UX designer, I think people in the tech sector are way too hard on users for not understanding the tech they’re using. Tech illiteracy is often a side-effect of good UX design. You don’t need to know how something works if using it is intuitive.
Windows has terrible UX, and Apple’s is a lot better, so it makes sense that Apple users wouldn’t need to get into the details of how their device works as much. That said, I have no love for Apple. I still think their UX is pretty bad, even while admitting that it’s more or less the best that’s currently out there.
On the other side of things, a bunch of the most tech literate programmers I know use Apple computers because it’s basically commercial linux that lets you use adobe products and such.
That is true. The biggest pain point for me switching to Linux was losing Adobe’s suite of software.
Personally I just wish there was an OS that let you have control over your devices, freedom to customize things, and a consistently clean UX. Sadly the corporate world will never allow that, so…you win some you lose some.
My biggest gripe with Apple for coding is the constant mixup of the Command and Control keys when I’m switching between my work laptop and my PC.
Well, that’s an actual fact so…