> because before, non technical users could be much more bold and try things out, it was harder to get things into a non working state
I'm still wishing any major OS shipped with effective partitioning between storage of OS/application data and user data by default, such that you could hit the "restore to factory settings" button (Cmd+R on OSX boot) and have a guarantee that the only thing that will be blown away is the OS.
It's kind of getting there via an orthogonal path—defaulting users to saving data to the cloud instead of the disk—but it's still not there all-the-way. If it was, I'd just teach my grandparents the "go back to the way it was" button and have much more calming holidays.
Well, at least OSX so far has had a consistent method of resetting applications by deleting the ~/Library/ files, but I'm sure someone at Apple will manage to screw this up via some new iCloud feature sooner or later.
I'm still wishing any major OS shipped with effective partitioning between storage of OS/application data and user data by default, such that you could hit the "restore to factory settings" button (Cmd+R on OSX boot) and have a guarantee that the only thing that will be blown away is the OS.
It's kind of getting there via an orthogonal path—defaulting users to saving data to the cloud instead of the disk—but it's still not there all-the-way. If it was, I'd just teach my grandparents the "go back to the way it was" button and have much more calming holidays.