[zjp]

I agree, for most people the system is a bootloader for Chrome. But this article is about one guy's disappointment he can't hold the whole system in his head anymore, and I'm just saying the user never cared about that in the first place.

But also, if you've only used one operating system, there hasn't been any need to generalize what you've learned from that system interaction wise. We had to learn a bunch of computing conventions. Eventually you learn things like "most command line tools have -v,--verbose". Grandpa doesn't think computers work this way, he thinks Windows works this way and how should he know how Linux works.

'What games are like for someone who doesn't play games' is a pretty good video about a similar thing. It's easy for you, you know computing vernacular.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax7f3JZJHSw

[midoridensha]

Granpa doesn't need to use command line tools; he certainly doesn't on Windows, even though he's old enough that he might have used MS-DOS or Windows 95 and had to use command lines then. Grandpa just starts his PC, clicks on the Chrome (or Edge etc.) icon, and uses the web. It's really no different for a modern Linux distro like Ubuntu.