You nailed it. We love to repeat that sentence, “it’s easy”, myself, wrongfully included. I do believe that lying to your brain that whatever you have to do is easy kind of makes you try harder and for longer, you break problems down and stuff, but not everyone is like this at all.
Whenever my dad calls me to ask about a problem in his PC, I always start energetic and happy to help him, with a good tone in my voice and everything. But I start losing my shit the longer the call lasts, because he doesn’t know anything, how to stop a process from the task manager, how to disable unnecessary startup programs, how to use a translator quickly in any website, etc. I become condescending because he likes to read me everything he sees on the screen first before clicking on the button I just told him to click on, everything, from top to bottom, every popup and warning. In windows. I always tell him that it’s easy, that it’d just take him maximum 1 week to learn, but still, he is always reluctant of it, he just wants to do his job, not learn about Windows or Linux at all
I’d lose my entire head if he tried Linux, because instead of buttons and intuitive icons it’d be a bunch of commands that even for me still look mayan most of the time. He’d easily fall for the sufo rm -r command if he followed a tutorial online, and that bothers me a lot. Linux is really not user-friendly as they think they are or claim to be yet, it seems like it’s getting closer, but the fact that a lot of it relies on using a terminal is already an instant-loss. I am sorry, but nobody wants to use the terminal, as cool as it might look while doing so or how gratifying it is to learn about it; the majority of people want speed without having to learn anything about how to achieve that speed
And before one of those deranged fools come here just to say “lol dude, your dad is just dumb” as a counter to all this, I’d say no dude, he is not, he is a goddamn fine architect, he just doesn’t need to learn the same crap that you and I have learned, we are a literal minority in this. He knows shit you don’t know, just as we know shit he doesn’t, and this applies to anyone of any age in this world, isn’t about age or whatever, it’s just about being interested in the topic, and not many are interested on a black box with weird-looking commands written in it, or how an OS works at all
I feel like these headlines only appear on our feeds, never on republicans’