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Non IT people need to back up too you know? And there are many more Windows users backing up compared to the number of IT pros.

Buy an off the shelf NAS for backups. Plug it in to your home router, and you are ready to back up. Unlike a USB drive, a NAS, such as a WD mycloud, is ready to use any time. Smart people like a convenient option. It's often recommended.

Make it hard to manage, and sure, they'll need to rely on someone else for help. But as we see on Windows, backing up to a share is easy.

Why ever defend bad usability?

One thing where Windows has an advantage over KDE for non IT people, is applications can directly access network shares. Most KDE applications don't even show the network in the file browse selector. So for sync or backup apps it only works with mounted shares. Which isn't necessary in Windows. To mount a share in KDE it's convoluted and a hack that is no good non IT users. If they expect good usability.

Yes, a directory is a list of items. Like a telephone directory. A folder is a container of items.

In 2009 I added Folder to the Wikipedia page Directory (computing) Explaining the Folder Metaphor in both English and German (Verzeichnis/Ordner). My clarification has been tweaked and altered slightly to bring it into line with Wikipedia standards, but it has stood the test of time.

I always use the term folder in Linux circles when referring to a container of things. It's useful to stress the importance of the user interface, which is often misunderstood by many there. Be proud!

To a non IT person who hasn't heard of apt, needing to start the update manually, and needing type some magic words in precisely, is the worst it can get.

It's clear why many Windows users won't switch to Linux, when people show them they'd need to use strange IT tools to use it. While, annoying, Windows doesnt need you to be an IT nerd. Linux doesn't either, but to people outside of the Linux bubble, this is how it gets presented. That Windows update sure looks easier than some manual hack.