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First, they're the kind of people who can be easily seduced with a pretty face, even though such face hides something as shitty and bloated as Windows Vista, and they won't let it go because they claim it's "very user friendly" and "comfortable and made for humans, not for machines".

Second, they're all obsessed over the idea that computers are hard to use and they will therefore close their mind to anything that's vaguely technical. Double that if they're these people who can't read English and think it's the hardest language in the universe. The result? You want to install them something that's a little bit different, like OpenOffice.org, and they go all upset and say "No! I want Microsoft Office! And I want it in Spanish!". They absolutely refuse to learn new stuff about computers, always, and discard any basic knowledge as "tough nerd s**t". And when they have to learn a new program for school, expect to see them dropping the subject.

Third, they're clueless and never pay attention. I can't count all the times someone has come up to me saying "Hey, could you fix my computer? I don't know what I did but it's screwed and acts up". And they don't have the smallest idea of how to care for a computer, they end up with their system all packed with virii, adware and nasty stuff, they often don't even have an antivirus, and when they do, it's Norton. stressed

And fourth, though that's more of an understandable thing that I always tolerate yet it's something that really tests my patience, you always have to walk them through every single step. You can't say "change your computer's IP address, then configure the proxy"; you have to say "click Start, then click Control Panel, then Network Connections, then...". sweatdrop