#and don't get me wrong linux is great for many applications... but introducing tech illiterate people to computers IS NOT ONE OF THEM

[hunter-rodrigez]

No offense to the people using chromebooks, but many of them barely understand how folders work, and you expect them to use linux? An OS that constantly requires the use of complicated command prompts like it's the fucking 80s?

That's like throwing somebody whose only used to swimming in backyard pools into the ocean... during a hurricane.

Chances are, all you will accomplish by doing this is the person immediately going back to chrombooks and never looking at any other operating system ever again, because they think all of them are as needlessly complicated as linux...

We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

Tech literacy didn't mysteriously vanish, it was fucking murdered for profit.