In my region, people who grew up with mac are more likely to finish higher class school than people who grew up using windows.
But not because they use mac but because they tend to have richer parents…
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What if you were started on an Apple computer before Macs existed?
Get out.
A flawed hypothesis. LOGO and Hypercard > Lotus notes.
"Discluded"?
Thank you! This meme is reposted often, and that non-word always jumps out at me.
Good grief! The word is excluded. Holy shit.
Shit was making my eye twitch.
probably a Windows user
The majority of people I know who have major computer problems solve them by buying another computer
I'm not even that tech illiterate, but I almost did that... My laptop was being slow, and I still had like 4k€ in overtime hours that I could buy Hardware from at work (it's a great deal because I neither have to pay VAT on the hardware nor income taxes on the money from the overtime), so I was like, eh, might as well get a new laptop.
So then I read up on what laptop brands are out there, found out about Framework, and when I excitedly told my electrical engineer husband about it he was like "You knooow that you can easily replace parts in any laptop, right?"
Well, I didn't know that (just kinda assumed laptops were more like phones than they are like desktop PCs), so I ended up just ordering a new SSD and new RAM for my laptop. It's back to being butter smooth, but I have a hunch that cleaning the dust from the fans while I was in there was a very large factor in that haha
I used to work at a locally run computer store, and one of the biggest upgrades for most people was going from a mechanical hard drive to an SSD. Made a night and day difference.
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I installed Linux for the first time at 14.
13/14 for me. Thinkpad 600 😎
Its nice to know im not the only Linux kid. It felt so weird, most of my friends didn't even know what Android was. It sucks growing up tech savvy when most people call themselves nerds after discovering "air drop".
I think the issue is not having a desktop-type computer at all and having a tablet/phone that’s so locked down the kid isn’t given the opportunity to explore or troubleshoot.
Tinkering is how you learn to solve problems, which requires having something tinker-able without having to go down a hacky rabbithole.
I know a bit about teaching about computers/programming to kids in the first years of high school. Their understanding of anything computer is abysmal. They have grown up with smartphones and maybe tablet, never were able to tinker with anything. Even just what internet is was confusing to them. It had to be reframed as “when can you watch youtube” for it to make sense…
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I started with a pair of matchsticks and a trenchcoat that I got at Galipoli in WW1, using the Phosphorus I found in the Bosphorus to craft makeshift TI calculator based on specs I got via Fax from a Samurai. I ran slackware on my slacks until we defeated the Ottomans, but they unleashed their puppy linuxes on us, and we stood no chance.
Meanwhile...
At the Hall of Justice, we join our heroes enjoying a celebratory game of Tuxkart on their PopOS devices after their latest defeat of Lex Luthor's DOS army.
"That was a great buffer underflow, Batman" said Superman, piping his Krypto into a GPG wallet.
"Thank you, Superman. Evil shall think twice before compiling on a non GCC system without warnings enabled!"
It's all that musl he has.
I think that being forced to learn about WINE at a young age may have been beneficial actually (if extremely unpleasant)
I remember when Wine was in alpha for twelve years (and then beta for three more). Was surprised to learn that it finally exited that stage, some time ago already.
I started on a commodore 64, you kids that started on a machine with a gui were coddled.
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the iphone was the beginning of the downfall
striping menue options down for usability and "natural gestures" like swiping caused a whole generation to be able to partake in internet discourse without having a basic understanding of how they got there
Hot take: macOS, being Unix like, fosters more tech literacy than Windows.
It's much better now with windows terminal and winget, but a decade or so ago even basic things like installing python and adding it to PATH were infinitely easier on Unix-like environments.
For those privileged to have programming classes, the first 2-3 sessions were the teachers going round doing tech support just to install python on shitty locked down Windows laptops.
Windows being terrible makes you learn a lot of stuff, but so much of it is untransferrable.
I started with DOS. then windows. I didn't use Linux until I was in my 20s, and not heavily use it until my 30s.
I just started using a Mac for work because it's "Unix like".
Mac's are fucked up man. I don't know how anyone gets shit done on them. the UX is developed like it's for stroke victims with permanent brain damage.
I would rather use W11 than a Mac and I fucking loathe Microsoft and their horrible AI bullshit.
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Ummm how do kids turn out if you install Linux Mint on a cheap laptop and give it to them to screw around with? Asking for a friend.
It leads the kid to Arch. I hope you prepared to always hear "I use Arch, btw."
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Das wirft natürlich eine sehr interessante wissenschaftliche Forschungsfrage auf, die ich mir erlaubt habe, in der wissenschaftlichen Literatur zu recherchieren:
"Does early exposure to different operating systems (macOS vs. Windows) correlate with differences in technological literacy and general problem-solving abilities among children and adolescents?"
The available research does not provide conclusive evidence that early exposure to different operating systems directly correlates with differences in technological literacy or problem-solving abilities among children and adolescents.
While studies reveal some interesting distinctions, the evidence is limited. Ronaldo Muyu et al., 2022 found Windows is more popular among university students (84.61% vs. 11.38% for macOS), suggesting potential usage differences. Shahid I. Ali et al., 2019 found no significant competency differences between Mac and Windows users in Excel skills. Cem Topcuoglu et al., 2024 noted that users’ perceptions of operating systems are often based on reputation rather than technical understanding.
Interestingly, Bijou Yang et al., 2003 found Mac users had significantly greater computer anxiety, which might indirectly impact technological literacy.
More targeted research is needed to definitively answer this question, particularly studies focusing on children and adolescents.
I did once have a Mac user describe the Bash terminal as "it looks like breaking things."
Had to ssh into an orange pi I set up with emulation station to transfer some roms. Dude who I thought was tech literate was in awe and even described it as "hacking" a few days later recounting it with another friend.
Also was the hbic at a Dave and Buster's, had to update the six person halo game, which runs on Linux, people started gathering around with their oooo's and awe's, with one kid saying it was like the movies. People by and large are pretty fucking ~~stupid~~ ignorant.
Edit to not sound so harsh.
I mean idk. I know it's simple once you know but not something I would expect the average person to be familiar with. To be fair if you're hacking you're probably are using ssh at some point. But also I wonder if some have a hard time accepting their own accomplishments. If we never allow ourselves to see our own advancement then we just see others who have not achieved as less. Give yourself some credit bro and by extension give these onlookers a break. What you're doing is kinda cool. Is that not what draws you to these types of activities in the first place?
That's a very solid outlook. Thanks for the perspective.
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Linux didn't exist when I was 12. 😑
I was around 13 for my first Linux install. Good times. Think pad 600, what a classic.
If I could have that exact same machine, with modern specs, I'd be hard pressed to use anything else. The nostalgia alone... So good.
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I was 8 when Linus posted on that Minix Usenet group about his hobby that won't be big at all.
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So I started with a DOS machine that my dad had at work, then my school got a few Apple Macs in the library so I played Oregon Trail on the green screen, them the first computer we had at home that I was able to spend hours on was windows 3.1.
'98 myself. But I got a vivid memory of being at my aunt's when her computer guy was there and he hated windows describing it as for the lazy. I was really young att but remember playing some kinda dig dug type game that had cartoonish CPUs as the collection goal. I also remember figuring out how to launch it on a dos system.
I started on Mac (the Macintosh Plus), then went to Windows, and now Linux (for about two decades by now). 🤷♂️ Work as a software engineer... Nothing to see here, folks.
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If you're using Lemmy there's a good chance you'll be excluded from the study. Some of the largest Lemmy communities are Linux related.
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