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Originally Posted by latepaul
I think saying folders have been around a long time is misleading. For most of that time computer users were in the minority. For the period when most people began to use PCs many used them in a very limited way and still found them confusing. A power-user might be someone who actually knew how to create and organise folders. The everything-on-the-desktop types are the people who breathed a huge sigh of relief when tablets appeared.
Which is a long winded way of saying that I believe there are plenty of people who can work a microwave but would find folders confusing. Or they might not given enough practice but having it as yet another option makes the thing feel "over-complicated".
I'm not anti-folders but I can understand why the big players want to hide them from the user.
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Much of that sounds like nonsense to those of us who are old enough to remember the pre-PC era. As PCs became popular in homes people had to learn the concept of directories/folders or they wouldn't have been able to run a DOS PC/Apple II/etc. Command line DOS required knowing where your files were placed. Even those who used Windows and Mac OS later on had to know where to locate their personal files. I have no doubt that the youngest generation of adults might be confused by directories/folders, but Gen X and the Boomers figured that crap out a LONG time ago.
