@soychotic I installed Linux on my laptop when I was 12

@vussyviz Autistic children will be discluded from the study for skewing results

@soychotic lol iphones and ipads destroyed computer literacy

@soychotic Kids who grew up with windows would've spent alot of time troubleshooting their PCs 😅

@soychotic it’d be good to have two additional cohorts > windows users who remained on windows > windows users who switched to mac

@soychotic Kids who grew up on Mac become adults who expect computers to just work. Kids who grew up on Windows expect computers to fail. I mean…you need a study for that? 🤷🏻‍♂️

@soychotic A worth addition would be choosing the correct download button from questionable sites.

@soychotic I spent so much time getting my cursor to be a sword and then dealing with all the malware I downloaded lmao

@soychotic Don't even get me started on Chromebooks and how they destroyed technology literacy.

@soychotic I've seen this first hand. My Mac colleagues can barely use a computer without assistance. Hell, kids straight out of college don't even understand what the C drive is. My generation started on DOS as kids, feels like we caught a huge break there.

@soychotic With Mac, the fact that you don't have the concept of Drives, or any folder hierarchy for that matter sucks. It's a machine that's designed for people who don't need to know how it works. Which also sucks.

@soychotic Mac kids learned to point and click. PC kids learned ancient debugging rituals, family-friendly curse words, and how to perform emergency surgery on a dying machine at 3 AM. One group got efficiency, the other got character development. Take that how you will.

@soychotic grew up Windows > switched to Linux when I started programming as a career and windows was too painful > Mac when I stopped having time to keep my OS working and realized I got paid well enough and it's close enough to linux to do all the same I wanted from Linux

@soychotic been building windows/ubuntu machines for over 20years. mac users expect a certain level of 'intuitiveness' completely missing from windows, so i believe theyre generally have a lower tech literacy. but the best hardware people are windows first.

@soychotic How about…

@soychotic Hate to say it, but the move to phones and cloud apps is making this disparity even worse. Kids today have ZERO concept of how any of it works. It's on/off, true/false with them. Period. They shout "The WiFi is down" as they begin to shake and convulse in despair.

@soychotic Early exposure to tech shapes how we approach challenges. Macs teach seamless simplicity, valuing design and intuition, while Windows encourages resilience through hands-on problem-solving. Each fosters distinct skill sets—one prioritizes ease, the other adaptability. The

@soychotic I don’t think I’ve ever used a Mac. The possibility of doing so evaporated (like dating) when I discovered Linux as a teenager

@soychotic I never let my kids use an iPad; my idea was to increase friction and not just let them finger punch away. Started them on Windows PCs.

@soychotic I think you should go further back than PC & Mac. People that started with 8 bit computers like the Commodore 64, and the Apple-II are the real computer gurus today.

@soychotic you would just be controlling for family income

@soychotic Everything I know about computers was trying to get games to run on my PC back in the 2000’s.

@soychotic You are going to find wealthier kids had access to macs.

@soychotic as someone who was raised on a mac, i can’t foresee where you’re going with this

@soychotic I started on Mac but It was a Mac2…. Picked up Linux and windows at 17 My general perception is that the bigger difference is learning to use computers onmobile first . iOS and Android hide a lot of complexity.

@soychotic I knew I should have commented on this at 100 Likes

@soychotic Correlation does not prove Causation

@soychotic My path was DOS -> Macintosh -> Amiga -> NEXTstep -> WinNT

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@soychotic I ran windows, macos and linux when i was a kid. multiple personality disorder?

@soychotic having a mac as a kid probably improved my tech literacy because most of the tutorials for things i wanted to do were made for windows

@soychotic I'm actually very interested in this.

@soychotic Whats your hypothesis? my gut feel tells me thats not correlated. Unless there are factors behind parents who own certain brands, carying more about their kids being tech-educated

@soychotic My daughter uses a Mac mostly and son uses a pc mostly. I’ll update you in 10 years

@soychotic We had Macs at school and a big old IBM that dual-booted Windows 98 and Linux at home, so I’m not sure where I even fall. I guess counting hours—in which case Windows would have been most heavily used by far.

@soychotic Please control for parents income and socioeconomic status or your idea is going to prove nothing.