Late GenX (really, between X and Millennial): we expected everyone after us to understand tech. Nope.
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2025
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Or they stopped using Windows and only use Unix for development.
"They know every smartphone"
And on top of that, I feel myself losing skills too. So if other millenialsare like me, it won't be just gen alpha.
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I used to teach math in the local school. The kids had a great interest in 3D printing because I had a few fun items in my classroom that I had 3D printed. I decided to spend a couple of weeks teaching a bit of CAD through having the kids spend it designing a personalized key chain to print.
It took me 3 days of class time to teach them how to use a mouse.......They couldn't grasp the idea that a touch screen and CAD don't go together, you need that mouse to make it work. It quickly became apparent that things quickly became difficult for them if it doesn't have a touch screen.
And while some classes are always a bit better than others, there was always a noticeable number of them that struggled with using a mouse.
To be fair: I switched to Linux 6 years ago. I'm using a tiling windowmanager, a lot of custom scripts, a different keyboardlayout with six instead of two layers (great for writing greek math, and other symbols) and an enthusiastic emacs user. I know the my System in and out. As a CS end math student, I know a fair bit about a Computer. But when A sit in front of an ordinary windows PC, I am a little bit upset. I stumble a lot of times over the thought: "You don't have a keyboard shortcut for this! You have to use the Mouse, to switch Windows or you have to click yourself trough a menu to change this setting. There are no man pages you can search with regex" I hate it!
"an enthusiastic emacs user" Well, there's your problem! (Sorry, I couldn't resist the poke)
To be serious, Windows and that mouse are just tools-- same as any Linux distro is. A means to an end. Nothing more. There is nothing to be miffed about when you need to use that tool. Be proficient with all your tools. And when you need to use a tool, don't be concerned about comparing it to the other tools. It diminishes you skills with that tool and and offers no gain to the solution.
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This is why windows is here for a few games and Linux is for everything else.
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CD drives were too big so drives were developed that only took half a CD, which is shaped like a C.
The D clan never left, they simply went into hiding until they were needed to usher in the new dawn.
The D shall rise again?
Computer natives are millennials. In due time, millennials will be what cobol programmers are in the coding world.
"On you want your recycle bin emptied? Yeah, thats gonna cost you."
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