Major Softie wrote:That works, and is nicer than "ignoramus," but "Computer Luddite" is kinda redundant.
I dunno about redundant but it does seem like an oxymoron. Like the term "military intelligence".
And it's certainly possible to be a computer Luddite. If you are still running Windows XP, you might be a computer Luddite. Which I am. Though I just got done installing Windows 8 on a test PC and am messing about with it now. Lots of little boxes all over the place. The mobile phone operating system paradigm is now brought to the desktop, yay!
Major Softie wrote:That works, and is nicer than "ignoramus," but "Computer Luddite" is kinda redundant.
I dunno about redundant but it does seem like an oxymoron. Like the term "military intelligence".
And it's certainly possible to be a computer Luddite. If you are still running Windows XP, you might be a computer Luddite. Which I am. Though I just got done installing Windows 8 on a test PC and am messing about with it now. Lots of little boxes all over the place. The mobile phone operating system paradigm is now brought to the desktop, yay!
Ah, THAT kind of computer Luddite. Well, in that case, I'm pretty sure you have to have a command line to be a computer Luddite, so you pretty much can't run any GUI at all.
Far from being luddites using the command line these days is a sign of being an IT pro. People who manage Servers and Networks have never stopped using it.
I believe the key part of my adjusted "Computer Luddite" definition was: "so you pretty much can't run any GUI at all."
Big difference between knowing how to use it and refusing to operate any other way, and that would be the difference between a Power-User and my Computer Luddite.
