Comment on What type of laptop do you recommend for simply browsing the internet?
disregardable@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
a cell phone. if it was a teen who actually needed to learn an operating system to be able to be employed later in life, ok get them a gaming laptop, but for a random old person who doesn’t care mobile is way more simple to use and less addicting.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 12 hours ago
Is this sarcasm or not?
I am actually asking.
disregardable@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
I’m not sure in what world you think a desktop system is easier to use than “just push the button”.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 12 hours ago
First I’ll address “less addicting”:
Short form media (e.g. YouTube shorts and TikTok) combined with notifications from everything that is fighting for your attention at all times. Mobile apps are specifically made to be addicting, whether it is just another 30 second vertical video, game with daily sign-in bonus or Amazon app telling you that you’re ugly (“You haven’t purchased any beauty products yet”)
Ease of use, typically you have Windows pre-installed. Not my choice of OS, but nevertheless a “just works” experience.
Phone is going to do plenty of tracking.
Phone is going to need an account (to use Play Store).
And when speaking of web browsing, you get a physical keyboard to type comments/posts. If you want to watch movies, you get a larger screen, ditto if you just want to read articles.
When you open a website, you get the website, not some limited interface prompting you to install 200th app that just ends up being a web UI anyway.
When you open up multiple things, you can nicely have multiple tabs and windows. And they won’t get closed just because you opened the calculator or locked the screen and now the browser got optimized to save battery (hopefully you copied whatever you were typing to clipboard).
anothermember@feddit.uk 12 hours ago
More clumsy to use than a mouse/keyboard setup, smaller screen, fewer options when it comes to adblocking/privacy (or options in general).