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Are you telling me kids don't click around the C drive anymore and all those "weird" folders in Windows just to see whats there? That's probably one of the first things I did when I got a computer (Windows 95), including deleting random files just to see what happened.

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Kids barely use computers these days. Schools buy tablets (iPads/Android) and Chromebooks. Neither encourage computer literacy. At home they have phones and iPads for the most part.

You're right, hadn't thought of it that way. Never thought I'd be the old guy who prefers a "big clunky" laptop.

I think it has a lot to do with how phone and tablet OS's (iOS and Android) deliberately try to hide the notion of paths or even files for that matter.

Windows has been doing the same since Windows 7 with the "Libraries" concept (Documents, Pictures, etc. instead of paths). Never liked it. Where's my stuff?!

Exactly, when I plug my phone into the computer I want it to show up as another drive so I can just drag my mp3s over to the music directory. It's sort of works that way with Android but the directory where your music lives on your phone is buried deep.

It's one of the reasons I still use a Blackberry :)

Not to mention file extensions. Windows hides them by default now, and nobody seems to know they even exist

It’s hid them forever, and been a problem that long as well.

Yes but it was easy enough to show file extensions. I am not sure how much Windows has changed. I think the last time I used it consistently was Windows XP.

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