Feathercrown comments on Whenever I talk to not terminally online people

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I would be surprised if the average person knows even one operating system, including the ones they use

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

i am pretty sure quite few people would not notice at all if you changed their windows for kde, as long as the same icons were on the same place on desktop.

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[–] bw42@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 child)

That is true, don't even need to change icons.

Years ago when I lived with my parents I had my mother's desktop setup with a dual boot testing things in KDE 3. Went to get a snack and came back to my mother sitting there playing kmahjongg.

She spent two hours playing kmahjongg and kpatience before she yelled wanting to know where her microsoft picture-it was. Never even noticed she wasn't in Windows.

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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I know this happens often but I still struggle to accept that it's possible

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[–] tfm 4 points 1 week ago

You could read that comment differently: People are getting lost when the icons aren't in the same place anymore on the same fucking OS. Just happened my dad yesterday. Accidentally moved a folder into another one and didn't find it anymore. Panically called me.

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