xavier666

"Don't attribute to malice what is explained by incompetence"

As a millennial myself, I have immense respect for "tech boomers". They walked so that we could run during the 90s tech boom.

I have seen young people not knowing any other directory other than Downloads and not understanding that there is a filesystem inside their phone.

The file is not in my downloads

Me: Have you checked other directories?

Other directories?

Me: Okay, open your file manager.

What's a file manager?

Me: Okay, do you have Google Files (an application which I detest but I know is pre-installed in Android phone)

Umm...have to check.

How do you save a picture? Where is Downloads? How do you apply a saved picture as a wallpaper?

These are confusing questions to boomers and Gen Z.

Why not have a simple app which "automatically" does all the hard work (just in exchange of a little of your data)?

Um...not sure if I'm too old, too young or too poor, but what is the Miiverse?

The only usecase for foldables that made sense is that since phones keep on getting bigger, so having a foldable phone would save some pocket space. However, I think phones stopped growing after 6" and foldable phones have been considerably more expensive. People are just more comfortable with a normal "slab" phone.

Game mode is way better than big picture because

• support for decky loader
• control system level settings from game mode itself
• has gamescope which handles win32 game settings much better
• disables other OS processes/the desktop and frees up resources (not sure about this)
• control more things with controller instead of the touchscreen

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The Chromium base, which is what Steam is built upon, itself isn't supported on Win 7,8. Can Valve work upon it to make it backwards compatible? Maybe. Will it be a pain in the ass to maintain? Absolutely.

Also, if you don't want to upgrade to Win11, you can make a 2nd partition for Linux and enjoy your games.

as difficult as plugging in a flash drive

That's a gross over-simplification

They have to

1. Download the windows ISO
   • How do you find the original ISO and not a cracked one?
2. Get instructions to modify the ISO
   • Hope you get the right set of instructions from a genuine website
3. Download Rufus and install
4. Make backup of their data
   • Hope you disabled Bitlocker also
5. Reboot and press the F? key to change boot order (F? varies from system to system)
   • How do you even find the right key for this?
6. Follow the installation process

One of the reasons Linux is not widespread is because following these "simple" instructions is too much for an average user. So I doubt a Windows user will be bothered to modify their OS. I have installed different variants of Linux 100s of time and even I need to check online if their are any hidden gotchas.

but if you install it right

Basically eliminates the vast majority of people who don't have the technical knowledge to deal with Rufus