| From: | Gerald Mellor |
| Date: | 6 Sep 2000 at 14:57:00 |
| Subject: | Re: Oh No not linux |
Hi Marco, on 06-Sep-00, you wrote:
>> Yes they can use them, but when something goes wrong they have no
>> idea how to fix it. A lot of people these days learn to use
>> computers in terms of "click here to run this". If it doesn't work,
>> or if for some reason something has moved, they lose the ability to
>> use the computer.
>
> Like you don't need to know how a combustion engine exactly works to
> drive a car, you don't need to know how an OS works to use a
> computer. The more you know, the more problems you can solve
> yourself, but it's impossible to be an expert on everything.
Okay, I'm not disputing this. My point seems to have become slightly
diluted along the way. All I was trying to say is that I think Windows
is a bad system for learning to use computers, because people who use
it tend not to gain an understanding of what they're actually doing.
Instead they just do things by rote.
I also said that perhaps it just seems this way because of the large
number of computer illiterate people using Windows. But I'm not
entirely convinced this is the case...
Regards
Gerry
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