Many people have a sort of learned helplessness. They don’t really know computer fundamentals, they get scared and stressed so they stop thinking, and then they don’t want to deal with it.
This take might make you feel a sense of superiority, but it’s a braindead take. It’s not “learned helplessness”, it’s simple convenience.
It’s convenient for the average user to not have to know computer fundamentals. It’s also convenient for users of any tech proficiency to be able to assume that the vast majority of programs will run on their OS with no fiddling required.
To the overwhelming majority of users, their PC is a tool to run programs. Convenience is king in that use-case, because any amount of time fiddling with the tool or any number of situations in which the tool doesn’t work outweighs the benefits in any other metric for the average person.
Many people have a sort of learned helplessness. They don’t really know computer fundamentals, they get scared and stressed so they stop thinking, and then they don’t want to deal with it.
People aren’t rational. They’re emotional.
This take might make you feel a sense of superiority, but it’s a braindead take. It’s not “learned helplessness”, it’s simple convenience.
It’s convenient for the average user to not have to know computer fundamentals. It’s also convenient for users of any tech proficiency to be able to assume that the vast majority of programs will run on their OS with no fiddling required.
To the overwhelming majority of users, their PC is a tool to run programs. Convenience is king in that use-case, because any amount of time fiddling with the tool or any number of situations in which the tool doesn’t work outweighs the benefits in any other metric for the average person.
There’s actually a research that sometimes it’s just not in their brain capacity to be more technically savvy.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S107158192400137X
Well that’s fascinating. I’m not sure what to do with this information. Maybe read the study more carefully when I have more time