My wife and I started talking about this after she had to help an old lady at the DMV figure out how to use her iPhone to scan a QR code. We’re in our early 40s.

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    I work in schools and kids aged between 5-12 are clueless with computers, they just poke the screen because they have no idea how to use a mouse and keyboard.

    If the computer isn’t switched on they don’t have a clue how to switch it on, just keep switching monitors on and off lmao

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      Sure, that’s hilarious, but I’m pretty sure I remember actually being taught to turn on a computer (and monitor) when we were being taught about them in general. What do you think these kids should do, just know things?

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        Well it’s not so much their fault but the one of their parents and society around them. That’s why you can find Gen Z’ers very capable of programming and handling a GNU/Linux distribution, while others couldn’t even be bothered with simple operating system concepts exposed to them on their iPhones.

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      1 year ago

      Reading comments like these is making me feel better and better about my practice so far of giving my young kids access more to a Linux desktop than to a phone or a tablet.