[beeboobaa3]

It allows it's users to actually use their computer as a computer instead of a glorified phone.

MacOS nannies you left and right, preventing you from doing things you want to do because Apple says no.

Windows historically didn't have such restrictions because it's a desktop operating system and not a gimped phone. They're slowly being added, but it takes time to overhaul an entire architecture while maintaining backwards compatibility (which MacOS also doesn't care about at all).

Linux is of course far more "hackable" but there aren't as many computer illiterates using it.

[bubblesnort]

I let the illiterates use it, but if they don't need root they don't get root. Debian stable with auto-unattend.

[survivedurcode]

LOL you should be upvoted as your comment perfectly captures the blind arrogance of the software industry.

When you call people computer illiterate, you are blind to the technocrat injustice imparted onto the general populace.

> The obnoxious behavior and obscure interaction that software-based products exhibit is institutionalizing what I call "software apartheid":”

> ― Alan Cooper, The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity

> “When programmers speak of "computer literacy," they are drawing red lines around ethnic groups, too, yet few have pointed this out.”

> ― Alan Cooper, The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity

You too can see the light and rise above the elitism of computer literacy. You know, there are many smart people that are too prideful to put up with what computer people demand as computer literacy. They suffer in silence, you will not have their loyalty, and they will switch to competing software the moment they are able to.

[beeboobaa3]

What? I never said being computer illiterate is bad. Plenty of fine people are computer illiterate. And plenty of fine people are fantastic at things I'll never be good at. That's fine.