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Re: Windows 95 UI Design

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You still see a small bar even with "zero" height.

Which was of absolutely zero use to them now as it remains today; they don't understand what happened.

There is a different cursor when you hover it. At some point you can't help people anymore.

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Windows 95 came out 25 years ago and many jumped directly from DOS or typewriters to it She has +25 years of experience in using computing devices now, and computers are hundreds of times more powerful, of course things are easier for her

I don’t think that argument holds very strongly. My grandma worked on typewriters, and then word processors in the 70s/80s. She had no problem doing her job. She’d been using a Windows laptop since the mid/late 2000’s, and it’s always been a huge struggle for her. She’d frequently enable/disable features without noticing, etc. Her tablet has been, as they say, like a glass of iced water in hell. She is far from a pow…

> Her tablet has been, as they say, like a glass of iced water in hell

TBF tablets do a fraction of what regular computers do.

I find it hard to believe that she finds hard to do the things she does on her tablet on her the laptop.

Like, for example, working with excel file (spreadheets in general) on a tablet is excruciatingly hard, while I've seen literal computer illiterates fly on their keyboards

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