A friend shared a post from someone else that was talking about this article. I’ve quoted the text from that post below:

This is a 1996 guide on how to help someone use a computer. It’s strikingly resonant with ‘how to be a parent’, or really ‘how to help anyone with anything’. A nice example of “the universal within the particular”

  • yeehawEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    That’s because it doesn’t do what we want. Who goes “download 7zip” in the start menu? People typically use it to find their installed software and by default (is it even able to change?) it searched the bloody internet. And it’s slow. Why?

    Mac and Linux I just get what I want in an instant. Windows is just a data collection engine for Microsoft these days.

    • @frank@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      You can disable (today, anyway) the internet search, and it gets wildly more useful after that. I wonder if it’s trying to be two things: searching your computer like it should, and for the less computer literate it’s “help me”