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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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    1 day ago

    I dont think thats being fair and I dont think that is true. Linux users perceive a video showing real issues on linux to be shitting on linux but do not consider a video that contains windows issues to be shitting on windows.

    • mabeledo@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 day ago

      I’m talking about the LTT staff.

      Proof of this is that for ten years, they published zero videos specifically about Windows shortcomings, but they did I believe two separate Linux “challenges”, where the main conductor was Windows users complaining about Linux. And while I agree that some of the complaints were legitimate, many others, like UX differences compared to Windows, definitely are not.

      • Auth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        17 hours 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.

        • mabeledo@lemmy.world
          1·
          15 hours ago

          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”.