A recent Wall Street Journal report delves into Gen Z's surprising lack of keyboard typing skills, featuring interviews with several individuals and revealing some startling statistics.
  • hddsx@lemmy.caEnglish
    21·
    6 months ago

    Hi, I’m a programmer. Most of my classmates didn’t know how to use Linux.

    Now, I’ve realized that newer products are being developed via Visual Studio so……

    Linux and command line knowledge aren’t the same as being tech savvy

      • emax_gomax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Well installing it. That alone requires a challenge most folks probably couldn’t overcome easily. People are accustomed to just getting a computer with a working os on it. Changing that os would be pretty hard for them.

        • piccolo@ani.socialEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          Depending on the distro, its generally no harder than windows… infact it probably easier since you dont have to go make an MS account.

        • doctortran@lemm.eeEnglish
          01·
          6 months ago

          And let’s be real, you at least need a degree of tech savvy to deal with the inevitable issues that will come up. Even on the simplest distro.

          • EngineerGaming@feddit.nlEnglish
            2·
            6 months ago

            IDK, only times when I broke things on Debian were when I made the unwise decisions to do things I don’t fully understand (that doesn’t really happen now). And my elderly mom uses Mint with less problems than she did Windows.