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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.

[Caption below the panel]
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

    • Auth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      watch the 30 day windows challenge or the tons of videos about various windows bugs. In what would would we expect their coverage of windows to be the same as linux? Windows is used by majority of their audience it doesnt have the same preconceived notions that linux has so the approach will be different. They have no shortage of negative coverage of windows shortcomings, its issues, its bugs.

        • Auth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Ok I tried to find this and you’re right there isnt a 30 day window challenge. I could have sworn there was but I was wrong. I still dont think LTT is overly critical of linux and im a regular viewer and WAN show listener. There is usually a few linux shills on staff dropping references and shitting on windows.