On 9/10/2013 8:16 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:

>> You can argue all you want about my not having "solutions". The issue
>> here is just how bloody stupid the one things they added, and never
>> removed, 3-4 OS versions ago, actually is.
>
> You really overestimate the abilities of the average PC user.  Most users
> don't want to be bothered with whitelisting or other stuff like that -
> they just want to use the damn thing.  Most users don't have the need you
> apparently do to do "approved unorthodox diagnostic work".  They just
> reboot and get back to their Word doc.
>
> Jim
>
True enough.. and, this is a perfect example imo of why, after the Apple 
II line, the whole thing went to shit - you no longer had to know how 
any of it worked, or, even on a hardware level, could find out (where 
Apple gave you a built in language, which you could boot to even without 
an OS, and a complete circuit diagram). The whole, "It will work if I 
reboot." thing is just.. gah! But, yeah, most people won't even try to 
comprehend the basics, and treat a PC likes is a big cell phone (and 
have done so since before cell phones).

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