> the average user is far less sophisticated, perhaps a 12-year-old girl
Argh. The author just had to specify that the unsophisticated 12-year-old is a girl. Because, hey, a 12-year-old boy might be a larval hacker, right?
> or a grandfather
Old people is another category of people who hopelessly "unlike" the presumed Linux Magazine reader. They certainly aren't interested in microkernels, but let's make sure they feel suitably old and marginalized if they ever try to change that.
Argh. The author just had to specify that the unsophisticated 12-year-old is a girl. Because, hey, a 12-year-old boy might be a larval hacker, right?
> or a grandfather
Old people is another category of people who hopelessly "unlike" the presumed Linux Magazine reader. They certainly aren't interested in microkernels, but let's make sure they feel suitably old and marginalized if they ever try to change that.