Teens don't have a clue about IT? (2016)
Allow me to preface this by saying that I am, in fact, a teen, and absolutely do not represent the majority of teenagers.<p>This post is a generalization and a subjective rant that absolutely doesn&#x27;t hold up in real life.<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;When you explain what happens under the hood, they will ignore you. When you tell them what a certain setting probably does, they will ignore you.<p>In my experience, although there may be some teenagers for which this is true, this is also true for people of all ages - those who aren&#x27;t interested in learning the base technology simply won&#x27;t.<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;Green text with a black background is the norm, right? No.<p>This seems a diversion from the writer&#x27;s point, that teenagers don&#x27;t understand computers. Maybe it&#x27;s meant to simulate what the writer believes teenagers think of the command line? If so, it&#x27;s hopelessly off it&#x27;s mark, like much of this post.<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;All they want is a computer that works, and that runs their text messaging, anti-privacy and social media apps. They think that Linux is for hackers, that OS X is premium users and windows is what everybody else uses.<p>No. Just no. I don&#x27;t know where the writer could have gotten such an idea - most people who use OS X at my school do so for dev, but there is definitely also a sizeable Linux population in addition to the Windows contigent. Personally, I have devices running Windows, OS X, and a few Linux distros.<p>Ultimately, however, the writer disproves his own point, that teenagers don&#x27;t know how to use computers as well as their reputation deserves. Being at home with the development of computers is vastly different from actually using them - something at which, I counter, teens are actually pretty good. Yes, the majority of teens may not use the command line much. But the computer is much more than the command line - something other posters on this thread have noted well.