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An edit of xkcd 2501, “Average Familiarity”:
[Ponytail and Cueball are talking. Ponytail has her hand raised, palm up, towards Cueball.]
Ponytail: Open-source alternatives are second nature to us foss nerds, so it’s easy to forget that the average person probably only knows Linux and one or two degoogled Android ROMs.
Cueball: And Firefox, of course.
Ponytail: Of course.
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Even when they’re trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person’s familiarity with their field.
partly inspired by the replies to this post but i see this kind of thing all the time (shoutout to the person who once genuinely asked “who still uses google these days?”)
made with this neat tool
There are no 30 day windows challenge videos?
There are a bunch of videos about how to configure windows “the right way”, which, to me, seems like a way of coping with the negative side of windows without questioning it too much.
And look, I get that windows users may have trouble with Linux. But LTT have been overly critical and even dismissive of Linux for the longest time. There are videos as recent as 2022 where some of the complains about Linux were straight up “I don’t like how this works”.