I think there was a golden 20 year era for learning basic computing. If you were a kid somewhere between 1985 and 2005 you had to figure out some slightly more technical things to use a computer. I'm late Gen X and so was exposed early on to the Commodore 64 and MS-DOS, but kids working with Windows 3, 95 and 98 would have developed similar skills.

fr, whenever i open the terminal on my school pc everyone immediately thinks im 'hacking'

sir that is just how i update my programs

I'm a millenial who does tech support in a school and I see this every day. Older people and young kids generally are pretty clueless about doing anything in a computer.

I always thought the generations after the millennials would use a computer as second nature as they would be born when computers were already everywhere. Instead, they are just as useless as boomers.

But millenials always manage the basics. And learn stuff quick when they have too. I doesn't matter if it's a teacher or a janitor. It's a different mindset.

I am my companies best employee, and am now a manager for the sole reason i know how to concatenate and use find and replace in excel.

I don't think the percentage for gen X is much lower. But those people simply engaged with a kind of computer technology in their youth that is irrelevant today, and had to keep up with a lot of new things since then.

I graduated high school class of 2005 in a random rural high school in North Carolina. Everyone in my graduating class knows how to navigate a file system, ie knows how to find homework.txt in My Documents/Homework, can type an essay in MS Word and could do a simple invoice or something in Excel. I don't think they even offered programming classes, and I don't think I met anyone who took CAD drafting or whatever, not until college.

How else did you get music?

If you mean "point and click" level of proficiency, sure.