How did people here learn GUIs

[Janina Sajka]

Sam, you're correct that they're all different in how they lay things
out, and indeed on exactly how you interact with them.

However, the unerlying concepts are the same.

PS: If you use an iphone or an android phone, you're also using a gui.


Sam Hartman writes:
> >>>>> "Cheryl" == Cheryl Homiak <cah4110 at icloud.com> writes:
> 
> 
>     Cheryl> But my experiences with all three gui systems - linux, Mac
>     Cheryl> and Windows - are each quite different from each other in a
>     Cheryl> lot of ways. On the one hand, I don't think learning one
>     Cheryl> helps a lot with the others as far as screenreader and
>     Cheryl> layout goes but on the other hand I don't recall ever
>     Cheryl> getting confused between how to work on each of the three.
> u
> 
> For me, Mac really helped learn Windows 2000.  At least once I Figured
>  out that  unlike JAWS for DOS, alt brought up the menu bar rather than
>  silencing speech.  O, that was so frustrating.
> 
> I've found that Gnome3 and modern Mac seem to have a lot in common and I
> find that one helped me with the other.  Not so much in screen reader
> usage, but in terms of knowing what to expect where and how to find
> things.
> 
> I also think windows 8 feels a lot more Mac/Gnome like than say Windows
> 7.
> Windows 8 did take a bit to get used to.
> 
> --Sam
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