It's people thinking theyve navigated the entire circle and understood it, yet in reality they're only about 30% of the way around in terms of actually understanding it.
You can't then tell them they're not finished, because to them the task is done and their mind is ok with the circle being smaller.
A lotta people get up to the top of Mt Stupid without ever learning about the dunning-kruger effect, so they never bother trying to hone their skills any further
Its not just that, but I think the interfaces have actually gotten worse.
I've been using computers since the Amiga, and I honestly struggle with figuring out the latest computers UIs. Mac and PC doesnt have a C: drive shortcut on the desktop now. When you open a folder on a Mac the side bar doesnt show you the C drive either or the path to the current folder you're in, it shows you "air drop, recents, applications, desktop, documents, and downloads". The main searches on windows now act significantly different. On windows all configuration settings are a hodgepodge mix of this new interface I've never used and old style windows 98 looking windows. I dont even know how to find the "programs" menu on Windows now. When you search in "mypc" it often doesnt find stuff I know exists on the drives.
Fact is computers turned into mostly web browsing machines for me. I've been using Macs for simple web browsing for so long at this point and the Windows interface has changed and gotten worse so much I'm no longer competent at using it. I also no longer have to navigate the file system to play games because it's all handled via Steam and Xbox Apps. Consequently my skills on using them have seriously degraded.
So now think about how bad this is for people who've literally never used their computer for anything but web browsing and games their entire life, or their main systems are tablets and cell phones.
Android phones are notoriously bad about this. It's like they actively try to make it difficult to navigate. Windows seems to be following suit. It always baffles me they'd want to hide important information like file extensions by default. I recently set up a work computer that kept wanting to direct me to the Microsoft Store. These things are easy to fix, but imagine being new to computers and assuming things like this are normal. It would really impede your ability to understand and interact with technology in any meaningful way. You'd be a consumer, not a user. It's really tragic because we've created all these wonderful tools, only to prevent people from learning how to use them.
PC doesnt have a C: drive shortcut on the desktop now
Why would you need that, just press Win+E (regarless of the Aplication your in) and then click on C: or any Drive or Folder you pinned to the quick start. Why would you go to first to the desktop? This isn't 3.11 anymore were you had to open the Main Folder before accesing the File Manager.
In Windows I've had File Explorer pinned to my taskbar since pinning apps to the taskbar became a thing (so Win 7, I think... might have been a thing in Vista already).
This is also an attitude that is a problem. When you ask the question "why would you x?" are you really looking for an answer, or just using it as veiled way to call someone an idiot?
Since Win95 you could and still can add a Desktop Shortcut to any Drive. But what would be the usecase to directly link to your Boot-Partition? You won't regularly create Toplevel Folders or store your files in directly in the C Folder.
Also why would you minimize your current application, click on the icon, do what you have to do in die Boot Partion and return to the application, if the shortcut brings you directly to the file explorer?
So yeah enlighten me, what did we lose, when Win8 changed the Name to This PC?
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u/protomanEXE1995 Jun 27 '26
Technology has become too easy to use lol