:⁠-⁠) I was serious. I learned about computers by opening files using MSEdit on MSDOS and try to figure out what’s what.

I think discoverability is underrated. I’ve been a Linux user for 25 years. It was painful to get started in the beginning and there was this anti-microsoft mindset that refused to look at positive things Microsoft was doing.

MSDOS gets little credit and is pretty much forgotten. But I think bill gates and his employees were really good at giving people what they wanted/needed. And they mastered the art of making things intuitive.

With MSEdit, one only needed to know that you press alt plus the underlined leter. From that point on, you could explore the possibilities yourself.

I remember some 10 years ago or so, emacs making a release highlighting the great breakthrough that the menus finally dropped down on the terminal. We are talking about 3 decades of delay comparing to Microsoft.