I think I should clarify: DESKTOP linux will never become widespread. I think in the next 10 years, a form of Android or some other closed source version of Linux will become a viable alternative to windows and MacOS. But the average computer user has issues understanding the concept of HMDI versus Display Port, much less trying to explain to them how to install a new OS from a thumb stick. I work around kids, and my location issues Chromebooks to them. They HAVE To issue chromebooks because the kids of this current generation are quite literally too stupid to use a basic laptops with a normal OS. Just the other night, I went into a room, and the person in charge told the kids to put their computers on charge. I shit you not: I saw 4 kids pull a USBC out of their bag, and plug it in, without pluging the other end into an outlet. If the concept of a charger is too difficult, I give up hope that they'll understand slightly harder concepts, like installing a stick of ram, or configuring an OS.
Fuck my life.
Yeah, that is the modern world and I hate those parents for it. In a strange way this probably means that the world of "linux on the desktop" is going to be here and fast. Its "free" and they are just going to put a app layer over it like a fucking tablet.
This is so god damn sad. I have seen it over and over. I had to teach someone how to turn on a pc back in the 90's. FFS. I think we need to get some of the old timers here into a chat just to rant about this shit for a bit. It is so tiring.
I gave up on teaching a while back because the kids "didn't know how to learn". When you can give a question with a document with the answer and they cant even use "find" to get the answer.. there is a problem.
Last part of this. Look at my suggestion for reading in the book's sub. "The Singularity Series by William Hertling".
Kids doing what you said just shows a complete and utter disconnect from reality. It is.. disturbing.
(Also, side note. MacOS is already *nix based. I believe it is based on NetBSD and has been since they started calling it MacOS or osX).
I read an article (archive.ph) yesterday on why employers are hesitant to hire the recent crop of college grads. 25% cited “Lack technological skills”. It’s the least common complaint, but it makes no sense for a generation that grew up with technology. People elsewhere say it’s because they grew up with dumbed down devices like smart phones and tablets.
It's absolutely the dumbest down devices. If you grew up in the 80s, you needed to understand primitive languages like basic or dos. If you grew up in the 90s, you learned how to use software to do fun stuff like torrent, play music, program funny viruses, etc. 2000s, you built your own devices regularly. By 2010, tablets, OSX, and others has begun the dumb down. Now, windows makes it near impossible to change settings, and Mac you can't really upgrade. It's no wonder kids see electronic as fire and forget, as well as disposable. It's what modern shit IS