Voytek wrote:
I tend to agree that vendor centric training is the cause. Although while so many people only learn how to poorly use windows environments and don't actually get training the problem will likely not improve much.I often found this to be a problem when PC were being introduced into
businesses 10-15-20 years ago. Everyone who was going to use them was
sent to training courses and worked well with the new machines, but as
they left their replacements weren't sent on training courses so had
little if any skills. Nowadays, everyone is expected to have computer
skills on their resume, but there is little if any consistency about
assessing, or quantifying, the level of those skills.
part of the problem is, ppl are taught *not* word processing skills, but 'MS Word' skills
and, most of tech training is vendor, not technology, oriented
I was kind of hoping the new popularity in linux in corporate spaces would have improved that. However it seems much of corporate linux desktop use focuses on showing people how to use a linux desktop the way they used their windows one.
Sadly however, people have to want to learn how and some just don't care. Good example -- I've watched people given a url for a website, paste it into the google search field because they simply have no idea what else to do with it. Even though the url for every website they visit is mere inches from their brain and no association is ever made.
D.
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