Originally posted by: addragyn
Originally posted by: MrChad
Unless I'm being well paid, I do value my time, I'm not interested in educating people about spyware, running questionable "cleanup" programs, locking down services, flipping registry keys, doing the antivirus dance, trying to get people using limited accounts, etc. It's boring tedious work that never ends and is very unsatisfying. Playing catchup defense gets old quick.
But you are interested in teaching users how to use Linux or OS X?
Well it's pretty standard across the board. Start desired application and use it, Photoshop is the same on whatever platform. The only reason these people are "using" an OS is to run programs. So ideally the OS just gets the hell out of the way.
Pretty much anybody who can work a TV and remote can sit down at a contemporary OS with a GUI and get their business down. Do you always buy the same brand of TV so you don't have to learn a new remote? Do you have trouble with an iPod since you first used a Discman?
Most users, not the people posting on computer forums, don't have much thought invested in using their OS. How many times have you heard somebody confuse RAM and HD space? Tried to get somebody to do a right click during a support call? Then had to explain the same concept to the same person 1 month later. They don't get it, because they don't care to. They don't want to use the OS, it's the applications!