On 13/09/2018 09:30, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

Mayayana wrote (in a thread in the '7 'group that started out about Adobe):

I think that when you get adept with computers
it's easy to forget how much work that took. It
took me months to get the hang of image editing.
(That was the original thread subject. This is wider.)
Now it seems simple, but for someone new it's
dozens of menu items that are not self-explanatory.
For people who aren't linear thinkers and don't
have a touch of OCD, doing anything on a computer
is pure tedium. They don't want to know any more
than they have to.

I think we all need to be reminded of that from time to time: that there
are people who're not interested in computing any more than necessary -
or, within computing, aren't interested in some aspect more than they
need to be: image editing, word processing, programming (including web,
script, and other things, not just C and the like).

Exactly, to *most* people outside of interest groups such as this, a
computer is a *tool*, for doing some type of work or pursuing some type
of interest, and they aren't interested in the intricate workings of the
tool any more than I am interested in the metallurgy of the face of the
hammer I use to drive in a nail, fascinating though that subject might
be to a materials scientist. The fact that computers are general
purpose tools that can do so much more than the one or two things that
most people use them for is neither here nor there, what is important to
them is getting done whatever job that the computer is used as a tool to
do, preferably with the least hassle and most convenience.