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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?”)
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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.
What you describe is a very recent phenomenon. They all were Windows exclusive until around when Microsoft announced the Windows 10 EoL date. Up to that point, pretty much every single video touching Linux, and especially those with Linus as the protagonist, were quite negative, sometimes for no reason at all, e.g. when he complained about UI elements that weren’t aligned with the Windows UX.
And this isn’t new either. Linus has a bias, like everyone else, and that’s fine, but one cannot play personal preferences as the gold standard, see his long term opinion about the iPhone vs Android, or his early videos trying to use Linux. The latter especially are famous in the Linux community of creators, you can find several reaction videos commenting on the topic.