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Sorry that I'm not used to having all windows in the same context, differently sized by default, needing to manually arrange them again and again to do anything.

I hate stacking WMs, especially Windows.

But on the flip side. If you tell somebody something they don't know like:

'You can open links in new tabs by klicking on them with the mouse wheel.'

Or

'You can reopen closed tabs by pressing Ctrl+Shift+T'

They look at you like you've just shown them the meaning of life. Bonus points if you see them using it later.

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I had a friend once come over and was trying to do something on my computer, and it wasn't working. I tell him exactly what to do, and it doesn't work. I watch him do exactly what needs to be done, and it still doesn't work.

I take control, doing the exact same thing we tried 3 times already... and it works.

I'm convinced electronics just hate some people and refuse to work for them.

When they dont use keyboard shortcuts.

Over the years I've become accustomed to a highly customised, privacy centric, keyboard-driven workflow that makes heavy use of tiling and modality.

I'm also "the technical one" in my family and friend group...

So when people sit me down in front of their bloated, ad-powered, AI "enhanced," stock laptops, and ask me to, essentially spend an hour learning about an obscure Windows problem space, then debugging and implementing the fix, I don't blame them for not realising the pain they cause me.

watching my boss shut down the front desk computer at EOD:

"you know, instead of clicking the X on 5 windows, you can hit ctrl+shift+Q once and save all that wasted time clicking. AND it saves me time tomorrow by opening all the windows at once, instead of only the last one you closed"

"oh, thanks! you know all the time-savers"

next day:

back to clicking every X

Seeing people with respectable typing speed using just their two index fingers. What a waste. They could have been great.

Having spent many years in tech support and also being my family tech support, this post pains me.greatly.

I get to see other people ways of using the computer daily.

there is a reason i use i3wm on linux.

You cannot use my computer, it is impossible.

Watching somebody scroll to the bottom of a very long list by clicking the arrow button under the scrollbar is my idea of hell.

Go on a older person's phone. Whenever I have to do anything on my mom's phone, it gives me a headache. Everything is too bright and big and unorganized and has so man notifications! And her phone is much newer than mine and it's still hard for me.

I try not to judge people....unless I see them right-clicking to copy and paste. Ew.

When I'm in the passenger seat, I push on the imaginary brake. When I'm watching someone on a computer, I'm pushing shortcuts on the imaginary keyboard.

i am okay with this during the few instances where they do things in a better way than i would have. like utilizing some extremely rare/custom keybinds for certain tasks in IDEs. those experiences are eye opening and humbling.

most of the other times though, yeah it's pretty rough

Every single time anybody has had to take remote control of a work computer while I watch feels like a violation and/or some sort of supernatural haunting.

Looking over someone's shoulder while they clearly engage the interface wrong I have a much easier time doing. It's the disembodied element that gets me.

I had to watch someone use emacs today.