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At a recent gaming expo one of the tables was showing a new game for pc. 50% of the kids that approached the table didn’t know how to use mouse and keyboard. The next day they added Xbox controller support and more than half of the people that didn’t know before then were able to figure out how to play.

I think this boils down to not education but poverty. Entry level computers cost way more than an entry level console. Sure you can buy a piece of crap laptop for $250 but it won’t be able to play ANYTHING. A $250 Xbox does everything you need and more. Most games today are not made to be played on $250 computers.

My ssd is sda (with a sda1 boot partition and an encrypted root partition). I may be in Gen Z but I also have Autism, granted I didnt grow up with a lot of technology but I always squeezed every ounce out of them. When I was 13 I installed Linux, by 16 I already knew how to use a terminal (and manage the entire system with it), today I would say im relatively good at basic IT and basic network management (although im struggling greatly at installing coreboot).

Conclusion: Gen Z/Alpha probrally wont be great at computers but there will probrally be many individuals who will be significantly more advanced at computers. I was watching YouTube and a found a video of a 15 year old installing Arch manually in less than 10 minutes on a Chromebook. So tbh I wouldn't be worried tbh (at least about this specifically).

Gen Z: Where is my file and what is a directory?

https://web.archive.org/web/20250128111653/https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z

This. The fundamentals of things computers do is so heavily abstracted now days, all kids know how to do is work with those abstractions.

What's a computer?

"We set our sights and spent our nights waiting

For you

You, insatiable you

Mommy let you use her iPad, you were barely two

And it did all the things we designed it to do"

Bo Burnham's Welcome to the Internet (2021)