Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 8th Feb 2006 22:42 UTC, submitted by danwarne
"The Unofficial Apple Weblog has posted a short story on the top five mistakes made by new Mac users. It includes closing an application window and thinking it has quit, downloading software and then running it from the disk image (runs slowly, can't eject disk image), and Windows .exe files littered around the desktop after they've tried to download software and install it. The comments attached to the article are entertaining, and pick up many other common mistakes. Here's a precise list of things that TUAW and its users said in comments, and a few of my own."
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It's not a biggie. Some of the things mentioned are really retarded, and you can only blame Apple for it. But on the other side you can't expect people won't have trouble controling a versatile device such as a computer.
I imagine users having the most trouble are older users or kids who've never used a computer before and therefo don't know jack about it. For example I know an older dude who literally didn't know how to launch an application.
But then again, there are probably computer classes in every hgih school by now, so future generations shouldn't have much problems.
edit: there's a nice quote from Linus; "If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it".
Edited 2006-02-09 01:50
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2006-01-08
...a lot of these mistakes are by new Mac users coming from Windows.
On top of that it seems the new Mac users making mistakes were also not very good at Windows or computers in general, or they would have stayed using Windows.
It's easier to stick with the devil you know.