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  • Are you…not familiar with standard program menu bars? Am I that old?

    As a Millennial I make it permanently visible, because that’s how programs worked in my youth and that’s how I use it. I have to actually spend more mental energy using the “hamburger” menu instead of the top one because it’s unintuitive to me.

    With the old style, things were always more or less grouped the same way. File IO operations in “file”, manipulation tools in “edit”, help topics in “help”, and so on. If you learned the basic layout, you could easily jump right in to most programs and use them immediately without having to learn a custom UI that is different with every program.





  • People use Windows because it’s easier

    No. People use it because it’s what came with their computers (look at ChromeOS, that’s Linux), and it’s what they grew up with. If you sat a kid in front of a Linux machine, and that’s all they ever used, they’d be just as comfortable using it as a Windows user on Windows. I still have technical MS-DOS knowledge from when I was 12 years old. Totally useless skills now, but it didn’t stop me from using computers in the late 80s. Computers were orders of magnitude more user-unfriendly then, but we all managed.