TONT 43043 为什么Windows没有『专家模式』

我会修电脑，但我不会焊BGA。

原文链接：https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030728-00/?p=43043

We often get requests like this:

我们总是接到类似这样的要求：

There should be a slider bar somewhere, say on the Performance Tab, that ranges from Novice to Advanced. At the highest level, all the geek settings are turned on. At the Novice level, all the settings for beginners are turned on. In between, we can gradually enable stuff.

系统里应该有那么个滑块，比如在『性能』标签下面，从『菜鸟』到『专家』分几个等级。在最高级别的时候，就开启所有的黑科技选项，而在菜鸟级，就打开所有面向新手的设置，在二者之间，则开启的选项逐级递增。

We’ve been trying to do something like this since even before Windows 95, and it doesn’t work.

我们从Windows 95那年头就尝试这么做了，然而并没有什么卵用。

It doesn’t work because somebody who is a whiz at Excel will rate themselves as Advanced even though they can’t tell a CPU from a box of Cracker Jacks.

这么做不管用的原因是，一个精通Excel制表的人可能给自己标榜为专家，即便他们根本无法从一盒爆米花（译注：Cracker Jacks是美国一休闲食品的品牌）里挑出一块CPU来。

They’re not stupid. They really are advanced users. Just not advanced at the skill we’re asking them about.

这并不是说这些人不聪明。这些人的确是专家级用户，只是不是我们所说的那个领域里的而已。

And before you go mocking the non-geeks: Even geeks don’t know everything. I know a lot about GUI programming, but I only know a little about disk partitioning, and I don’t know squat about Active Directory. So am I an expert?

在你据此去嘲笑那些不那么精通电脑的人之前，首先你要知道，即便是真正的专家也不是什么都懂。我懂很多关于GUI编程方面的东西，但对磁盘分区只是略懂，对Active Directory一窍不通，那我到底算不算专家呢？