Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: HarpingOn Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,uk.comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: [ANN] MacSOUP is now free (and unsupported) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 20:05:29 +0100 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <1mscdiw.120k8zk19vdv7uN%stk.usenet@haller-berlin.de> <1msfrb3.1j45xb0sjfk66N@de-ster.xs4all.nl> <1msftv0.96waqgg50ygtN%stk.usenet@haller-berlin.de> <1msggh3.1bf3lvp1cdmfpeN@de-ster.xs4all.nl> <1msg1jb.1l0efsq171jis9N%nmassello@yahoo.com> <1mshdz7.1s0avdwvchkyzN@de-ster.xs4all.nl> <1msi7j9.1qqltkvbycetzN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 0cUr19teSFkbU9JyIxfpcAf5qxzv2lEDLyd2YirhUhK9bH8NhT Cancel-Lock: sha1:rpwlJD8lsO5KCZX/B75fJShPO4E= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.comm:3035 uk.comp.sys.mac:112743 On 24/08/2016 10:49, Graham J wrote: > Jamie Kahn Genet wrote: > > [snip] >> >> I take your point that none of this is probably immediately obvious to a >> new user, but it's all simple file management skills that IMO all Mac >> users - not just MacSOUP users - should grasp. Life becomes a lot easier >> in the long run, when one doesn't skip the basics. > > I don't think I've ever met a self-taught user who has achieved any of > these simple file management skills that you talk of. It doesn't matter > whether the user is young or old, or uses a PC or a Mac - file > management is non-obvious and has to be taught. > Coming from ZX80, 81, C=64, Amiga and the like since I was 7 years old, it was clear that storage devices contained data (tapes, disks, whatever) and there were programs which operated on that data. I think the drive towards modern GUI systems and especially tablet devices is what's hiding that. These devices also have given many many more people exposure to sophisticated computer devices, which is also a good thing.