I think it's true though. Other people on here have mentioned the same. People's earliest computer experience now is just using apps on a mobile device. It isn't using a desktop or laptop anymore. And often all people need to use is a mobile device, which are not designed around file systems (which is kind of nice most of the time). Although mobile operating systems do also have a problem with not really being designed for utility. File systems can also be really unintuitive.
Windows Explorer is both kinda nice and kinda garbage, but it makes it confusing to determine where files and things are stored in the actual file system (C:). I was already doing computer programming before I understood how file extensions worked (they're just a file name convention), partially because Windows by default hides file extensions :agony:. And Windows does a garbage job at teaching you how the actual architecture of the system works: the boot process, the root file system, device drivers, the registry, environment variables, etc. GUIs were created to basically hide all of that, the problem is it's all still there and affects everything else. I think desktop OSs are just a confusing Frankenstein's monster since their architecture wasn't even designed for personal layman use (it was for mainframes and academia and stuff like that), in the way that smartphones OSs are.
People are also dumb and lazy and should use file systems more. Older people used file systems more because older operating systems made them more front and center (any UNIX OS or other terminal based OS). I'm (not older but) lucky to have used my mom's clunky desktop computer a bunch.
The article has a really good point, "(Your Steam games all live in a folder called “steamapps” — when was the last time you clicked on that?)"
I think it's true though. Other people on here have mentioned the same. People's earliest computer experience now is just using apps on a mobile device. It isn't using a desktop or laptop anymore. And often all people need to use is a mobile device, which are not designed around file systems (which is kind of nice most of the time). Although mobile operating systems do also have a problem with not really being designed for utility. File systems can also be really unintuitive.
Windows Explorer is both kinda nice and kinda garbage, but it makes it confusing to determine where files and things are stored in the actual file system (C:). I was already doing computer programming before I understood how file extensions worked (they're just a file name convention), partially because Windows by default hides file extensions :agony:. And Windows does a garbage job at teaching you how the actual architecture of the system works: the boot process, the root file system, device drivers, the registry, environment variables, etc. GUIs were created to basically hide all of that, the problem is it's all still there and affects everything else. I think desktop OSs are just a confusing Frankenstein's monster since their architecture wasn't even designed for personal layman use (it was for mainframes and academia and stuff like that), in the way that smartphones OSs are.
People are also dumb and lazy and should use file systems more. Older people used file systems more because older operating systems made them more front and center (any UNIX OS or other terminal based OS). I'm (not older but) lucky to have used my mom's clunky desktop computer a bunch.
The article has a really good point, "(Your Steam games all live in a folder called “steamapps” — when was the last time you clicked on that?)"