All I hear about is “boomers” this, “Millennials” that, “Gen Z” that, etc.

Why no one talk about Gen X? What happened to them? They just vanished like in Infinity War? Or are we mistaken Gen Z by Boomers?

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    8 hours ago

    Yes, “xennials” probably have their own generation because of this, but I have met a lot more millennials that can manage UI changes over genx.

    Switch a genx from windows to Mac and they are lost. Switch a millennial and they seem to be fine. I’ve seen this with phones, TVs, websites, etc.

    Genx were young during “dumb” tech. VCR, digital phones, etc. millennials were learning the internet as it was moving from a hobby to its own platform, cellphones as they were first widely available then as they went “smart”, and a lot of other examples.

    Don’t get me wrong, a lot of knowledge was lost along the way like manual categorical systems including tabulation machines, phone books, Thomas Guides, even cabinet filing systems/card catslogs. Genx handles these things a lot better than the more recent generations.

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      4 hours ago

      Switch a millennial to a CLI or ask them to understand underlying technologies or networking and watch the difference between them and xennials for example.

      Digital native means they learned how to click next.

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        3 hours ago

        Younger millennial here, some of us grew up using Linux. There are literally dozens of us!