I'm with you on this. As Zaps said right above you ... "from an age when I had the curiosity and patience to figure stuff out" has a lot of bearing. BUT, I'm an "old dog" and I've taught myself a lot of programs. What they NEED is to create a bunch of video tutorials like Adobe did. I have my own problems with Adobe, but I use their programs for work and am still learning how some of them work. I don't always get it on the first, third or tenth watch ... but being able to rewind, pause and watch videos over really helps when things aren't "adult friendly". I once tried Linux. When I was not a child, but much younger. I never got past loading it for the reasons everyone mentions. I was proud that I got that far, but that was as far as I could get without someone to help me.

Not all of us were beneficiaries of the largess. Most black people and a lot of single mothers, anyone who wasn't able to finish college or secure a union job ... we were all left out of that. It gets real tiring being accused of the ills of a small demographic when we are down here suffering right along with you. AND being blamed for it.