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All my work computers are provided by the companies I work for and per their rules I can only take and store notes using their approved software and on their servers which basically means I work on a locked down Microsoft ecosystem. Access to third party productivity software is simply not possible outside of certain role specific specialist software.

I would guess literally millions of employees have a similar setup so it's not that we are tech illiterate per say, but more accurately in the corporate world this option doesn't exist so there is no point trying.

Outside work my productivity tools consist of a Moleskine notebook with tasteful check paper.

They just want to get the job done. The fact that they considered a note-taking app at all isn't universally normal. To this day my wife sends me messages in signal as a post-it to remember things, she could have just sent it to herself, but she used to do the same in sms and just applied that forward after I convinced her security was a good step.

We want the best, the nicest, the most useful thing. We apply the same rigor most non-technies use when choosing a car.

They want to fill a need that, at worst, bothers them a little.

I feel obligated to mention Logseq here. It's similar to obsidian, but FLOSS (AGPL-v3).

Honestly OneNote is pretty good for the people who like it though. I personally really can't stand rich text editing, I really need a raw view. If I didn't have those reservations I'd probably like OneNote more.

Nonsensical argument. Just because a piece of software is FLOSS and non-Google, it is not automatically a "weekend side quest". Big Tech is very happy that these false equivalencies have spread as well as they did, but they don't hold a kernel of truth, at least not anymore.

oh man it sures takes all my weekend to install firefox and set a search engine

I get the point, but going away from Google search is so easy.

Gmail on the other hand I understand why people are still stuck using and I don't push them to switch away.

But it drives me nuts that some normies in my life will complain that Google has gone worse, still refuse to switch. There are some who don't know how to change default and I still get it, but there is one mf at my work, he changed his default in edge from bing to Google and when I said since you know how to change default why not use DDG or startpage or honestly any other non giant alternative. He just says too much work.

Honestly, switching search engines is pretty normie friendly. I've got a lot of non-techy friends or family, that use Ecosia or something. They also did it on their own, I didn't even encourage them to do it.

With things like Linux it's a bit harder. But if they don't rely on any specialized software, they are usually fine with me offering to upgrade their Laptops so Linux. I installed Linux Mint on my Mom's Laptop and she can use it as well as Windows. She never complained about it.

Do you happen to live in Spain during a football game

Looks like there's an outage at the moment

there's a lot of people that hopped on the Linux train in the past few years. which is great, truly. but many of them don't understand where it came from or what it was originally designed to solve. particularly on lemmy, people are pretty up in arms about their opinions of Linux all the time, so I would bet whichever comm was doing that is mainly the new heads. again, love that it's getting mainstream recognition but I wish the combative attitude was at least tabled until they actually understand it.

the recent debate of systemd in here kind of drove home that a lot of people just parrot points without having their own thought out opinions.

My experience with the Linux communities here has been the opposite. Very welcoming, and very helpful.

No. People who are 30+ maybe. But there are tons of people in GenZ (my generation) and Alpha that don't even know what folders or ~~symlinks~~ Edit: shortcuts are. And Firefox is a nieche browser since 10 years or so.

Hah no they don't. My partner doesn't even really know what a browser is, or where the distinction between phone/pc and 'the internet' lies. Sure she might have heard of the word 'firefox' but no way she can explain what it is or does.

The vast majority of people I work with in my organization have absolutely no idea what Firefox is or that there are other browsers. You, me, and everyone here is living in a bubble.

"Why does your google look like that"

Everyone uses VLC still right? ... Right?

I wouldn't be surprised if gen alpha hasn't heard if it because schools primarily use Chromebooks and the only browser is chrome