This guy is a troll. He spends his time picking fights and deflecting anything that conflicts with his fragile world view. Check his profile.
Just thought you should know. He doesn’t really care about dispensing advice, he just likes feeling superior
Ok, but the solution to “lots of users don’t know the difference” isn’t “we might as well show so much less that we reduce the entire problem to a nondescript code that can mean several different things”
There’s literally no reason to do that except to discourage people from solving the problem in the first place, because the users you’re referring to won’t do it either way.
I don’t get why this is a controversial opinion?
Do you realize that those two goals go hand in hand and are not mutually exclusive? For example, there’s no benefit in OS usability to putting out a single line error code as opposed to even the slightest detail as to what went wrong. That’s not “making their products easier to use to attract customers” as there’s not a single person in existence that judges an OS on how little they have to know about an error.
That’s mystificatiom of the system.
While it’s true that an overall goal of a company like ms is to sell more operating systems, that doesn’t mean that learned helplessness isn’t in the syllabus somewhere.
It’s possible that compared to the way the OP regards the average Microsoft user, they might just consider apple users more like monkeys at a keyboard and felt no need to mention them.
There’s something so satisfyingly full-circle about 3d printing Megaman.EXE.
Thank you for this