non-tech-savvy

But the problem is that Tox doesn't make that obvious for non-tech-savvy users.

So you're saying its impossible to have decentralized software that non-tech-savvy people can use?

In certain non-tech-savvy environments, such a thing has a very good chance of adoption.

Honestly, as far as I can tell, Windows is _way_ harder to use for the completely non-tech-savvy than Linux is.

What Windows 8 did wrong was messing with the familiar old-school interface a bit too much, which made many non-tech-savvy users confused and miserable.

Making software centralized makes it easier for non-tech-savvy people to use, as there are incentives to people to make their websites more accessible (larger profits).

If you're talking generally about non-tech-savvy people who like Facebook and other popular apps and websites, then that would include most of my family and some of my friends.

But we already see that non-tech-savvy people go to Amazon.com from the UK and expect to be able to buy things that they can't buy.

If we do our job right, standalone accounts should be so easy to use and user-friendly, even for non-tech-savvy customers, that it's clearly the better option for everyone.

Most recently, on April 2, I notified Rackspace's abuse department that they were hosting a major fraud/scam site (websitebackup.com, they send out fraudulent invoices and wait for non-tech-savvy customers to send payment) and never heard back.

To address some of the criticism surrounding facebook logins - yes, this may be a put-off for some people, but then it has also worked remarkably well for a lot of apps, and for most non-tech-savvy users, it changes the registration process from filling in multiple fields, to a couple of clicks - I personally think there is an appeal to that, particularly for a new product.

Saying it's "alpha" doesn't mean to anything to non-tech-savvy, they will think it's missing a feature or two, not that their privacy and security is possibly compromised.

Plenty of non-tech-savvy people get caught by "your computer is infected!!" style ads.

Still, unless these non-tech-savvy users "route all incoming and outgoing traffic through Tor" they won't be completely safe and should be worried about metadata leakage and adding people they don't actually know.

"Merge tabs and apps" is something I turned off right away and something my non-tech-savvy android using friends constantly ask me for help in disabling.