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On Sun, 8 Dec 2024 03:02:20 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:

> Yup.  If they learn the handholding GUI, all they know is that exact
> handholding GUI.  Flip them to a different GUI, or if V3 of that GUI
> changes, and they are lost again.

Then they are very poor at generalization. My various machines have 
Ubuntu, Fedora KDE spin, Lubuntu, Debian with Xfce, the Raspberry Pi OS 
derivative of Debian, and Windows 11. They're all different and they are 
all the same. 

The thrill of hunting down xorg.conf wherever the distro stashed it so I 
could get the right button for a left handed mouse or get a monitor 
configured sort of wore out 20 or 25 years ago.