Say a friend is looking for a new system, and said person is not particularly savvy with technology, what system would you point them toward?
Say a friend is looking for a new system, and said person is not particularly savvy with technology, what system would you point them toward?
This is what keeps Apple in business - they are very easy to use. Someone with zero technical skill can point at pictograms and open and close things. You could change the language to something you can’t read and use most features without an issue.
it reminds me of memes like this.
And hey, failing that, Linux Mint. It works at least.
They even have classes to easily make emojis. Like it’s absurd the customer service they have. Windows tells you to fuck off. Does Linux have one? (I ran Ubuntu in college but honestly the ease of Mac switched me, and then dealing with windows at work killed any desire to be near a windows product).
Emojis - I think you mean stickers? Emojis as a set of characters are standardized by Unicode. A friend of mine has sent me stickers she’s taken from photos. Samsung devices also do this within their own ecosystem, but there’s not a frakin’ class about how to do it.
Linux customer service is “uh…there’s a forum somewhere…have you looked there?” People on lemmy hate when I say it, but paid (not free) Claude is actually very adept at troubleshooting Linux issues.
Ironically, tons of programmers also use Mac, because it has a rock-solid GUI on top of a Unix. The ‘pictograms’ don’t matter as much as the fact that Apple designers actually know design basics unlike MS, and spent ages polishing the UI.
The other thing that keeps Apple in business is tech companies not wanting to fuck around with windows or Linux laptops. Linux systems run the world and MacOS is just plain better when it comes to interacting with those systems while also serving as a good user-facing operating system.
And before anyone says WSL, I was forced to use WSL for an engagement and anyone who tells you it’s viable is a lying or a Stockholm syndrome sufferer.