The Picard Maneuver to People [email protected] • 2 months agoIs that bad?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square317fedilinkarrow-up11.33Kcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up11.33KimageIs that bad?lemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver to People [email protected] • 2 months agomessage-square317fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•2 months agoI’ve been trying to help my parents use Windows since the '90s. They still to this day have no idea what the Start menu is.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 months agoQuality teacher! but, how do they turn PCs off? win-d alt-f4? think win-d was not a thing in early windows… please don’t say by power button.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•2 months agoPower button is a perfectly valid way to turn off a modern PC. They don’t kill power the way they used to, they send a signal to the PC to shut itself down. Exactly the same as using the start menu.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 months agoSure, the keyword is “modern” though we used to talk of 90s’.
I’ve been trying to help my parents use Windows since the '90s. They still to this day have no idea what the Start menu is.
Quality teacher!
but, how do they turn PCs off? win-d alt-f4? think win-d was not a thing in early windows… please don’t say by power button.
Power button is a perfectly valid way to turn off a modern PC. They don’t kill power the way they used to, they send a signal to the PC to shut itself down. Exactly the same as using the start menu.
Sure, the keyword is “modern” though we used to talk of 90s’.
They never turn them off.