As the user you are expected to learn. You weren't born with the ability to use a Mac or Windows either.
Exactly.
With BSD - unixlike - you
add knowledge.
But you don't have to relearn everything again when a new version appears.
With every new version of Windows the look and feel is different, such is the structure, the concept,
so is the non-standardized verbiage, several new tinker-toys are added, while some of the old ones are gone, or been remodeled.
It's not really that much, but with Windows you have to relearn its usage over and over again, every couple of years.
I don't want to, but I need to use an OS.
Computering is like a movie.
The OS is the producer.
Not the director. That's me.
Also not the plot, nor the main actor.
Those are the jobs I'm doing with the applications I installed.
For that I only want to learn of the OS what I need.
And that's why I'm so happy with FreeBSD.
FreeBSD (as it is) is actually fun.
'cause to me learning is fun.
With FreeBSD I only have to learn what I need,
because I don't (get) install(ed) junk I don't need/want.
With FreeBSD I have to learn things I need to know
once.
With Windows it's no fun.
As I said: It's illogical, non intuitive,... a mess.
And I needed to start all over again every few years - and don't become even better on computers!
With Windows you're forced to spent learning effort without increasing your knowledge, just exchange Windows only related knowledge with another useless junk.
That's
crap!
And it's worse since Windows also trys to become part of the plot, doing director's tasks, sticks it's oar into my job - that's not only annoying, that's incapacitation.
I am the master over my slave the machine.
If this is turned upside down, the whole point of machinery, including computers is missed.
Why is RTFM such a hurdle on an OS
Because people are convinced reading is boring, and weary,
while watching a videos is way more fun.
They simply don't get:
All you need is the text.
Doesn't matter if you read it yourself, or listen to somebody reading it for you.
Most simply lack the experience of reading is way faster than listen to a spoken word.
The confuse convinience, with efficieny.
Worse, they prefer convinience over effiency.
But at the same time arguing that was saving energy...
Some actually read as slow as someone talks, or even slower (I'm not talking second grade elimentary.)
That's a serious concern, not to say a disability.
Natural languages are the programming languages of our brains.
Reading texts, expecially books are the single most efficient way of learning.
There is no faster, no more efficient way to gain more knowledge in less time than by reading.
That's a scientific proven fact.
But as I explained:
People don't recognize it.
They don't believe.
They cannot compare.
They will not compare.
They don't put it to a test.
They are too lazy for that.
They don't care.
Okay, but don't try make me believe this convinience bogus, too, 'cause I
know better.
They believe Window's unspoken promise:
"You don't need no computer-knowledge at all. It's so easy to use. Look at the fancy colorful GUI with all those funny gadgets!"
Anybody did some computer help for friends, or family know how 'easy', and 'efficient' this usage without learning is.
Common Karen Everyone is completely overloaded with 'complicated' tasks such as 'make a copy of this file...'.
Common Karen Everyone does not know what a drive, or a storage is.
She doesn't have to.
There is a cloud.
You can and shall trust.
I read somebody once said something very true:
'If you're using a service not paying for you're not the customer but the ware.'
From an economic point of view Windows is ingenious:
Customers pay to be the ware.
Using a power tool like FreeBSD requires learning. Installing it requires learning. Learning is good for you. Deal with it. It's not like FreeBSD is being created purposefully to be difficult to understand. On the contrary, in fact.
100% agree.
Particulary I love 'power tool'.
FreeBSD, BSD, unix(like)
is designed to be comprehensive.
What seems to be difficult is simply the sheer amount of stuff modern computers come with, especially with networking/internet.
Windows makes it easy by simply wipe many things from the menu.
Less on board = less to learn = simplified
Therefor you get zillions of colours, and themes you can change the look, simulates the feeling of 'setting up your computer.'
It seems complicated and weary when you set up a FreeBSD machine to become quickly as Windows-like as possible. Because then you subconsciously realize three things:
1. How much junk a Windows machine has all already installed by default.
(First thing mostly it is to become as colorful, and overloaded as Windows.
Why?! What for? Ever asked yourself if you really need all this junk?)
2. So many choices you have on junk.
You never needed to bother, because Microsoft already did the decisions for you:
Eat what you're feeded, and you don't need to bother with a complex menu, containing such uncomprehensable things like starters - hot,
and cold, soup, salad, not to mention first, second, ... -
side dish?!... -
dessert?! Drinks?! Will it ever stop!?! Just feed me!
Of course. Open your mouth! Here it comes: The lukewarm Windows mulligan stew!
By default applied with a funnel and a tube.
We even decide for you, when you're full.
Bitters come extra by Norton, Kaspersky, ...
3. You know shit.
You realize the game is way more than just moving between 'Go', 'Free Parking', 'Go to Jail', and 'Jail'
And you're almost at 'Go' anyway.
But then you're missing the point.
Don't set up a FreeBSD machine to become Windows-like.
Set up a FreeBSD machine!
Forget the crap!
Accept the fact it's crap, and welcome to the pleasure dome!
Just because you're started with and used to it doesn't make Windows the reference.
Windows is no reference.
Unix is.
People sacrifice everything for even the hunch of more comfort.
To me it's:
Let them have there way.
But
please I don't need nobody telling me I need to be also that dumb.
I been in this Windows hell for almost twenty years, and happy I'm not only out of it, but now I am in heaven.
I have no problem with learning, reading texts.
Even books containing several hundreds of pages don't fear me.
In the contrary, I
love books.
There are already way than enough turn-key more-or-less Windows-like Linux, or BSD-based system.
Chose one of those.
Or start your own one, another one based on FreeBSD.
If I didn't found yet the autoconfiguring turn-key OS suits my individual, personal needs perfectly,
within this large number of existing attempts to reach that goal,
to me it's not the question to keep on with my quest, and even try to turn an OS into such.
To me is to reconsider if my premises are right.
