created using: https://marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-generator/
based on: https://lemmy.world/post/53081436 by @VegOwOtenks@lemmy.world
original: https://xkcd.com/2501
see also: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2501:_Average_Familiarity
Most people know Windows, “iPad”, “Mac” and “Samsung” as OS.
They’re not that bad they know the word andriod.
Lmfao most do not
I still get asked for a Samsung charger, even though I am willing to bet that all of my coworkers phones are USB C.
Its true, though. The number of clients that go silent when I ask what operating system they are running is staggering.
This is one of your primary tools for work, people. I feel it’s like a painter not knowing what different brushes are for, or a wood worker trying to plane a board with a sander. A professional should have a more than passing knowledge about how to use and maintain their tools. I’ll die on that hill.
“what do use?”
“the Google”
“huh”
user pulls up their Bing home page, in IE “see”
“…my prices just went up 5x”
A week ago someone was telling me about problems they were having with IE, it was Edge.
I don’t know why but putting BSDs in all caps disturbed me and I read it as BS DS…
It’s actually a new project called BSD Secure. The entire root filesystem is encrypted using TLS, and you need both a domain and a valid certificate to boot. Better not let them expire!
cloudflare sales department: NUT
Ahh, right… That one weird non-foldable DS. Nearly pointless -_-
AKA: The BS DS.
Wait, they weren’t talking about that AC DC tribute band?
I just want to say, to no one in particular…
Our ‘home’ MacBook was end of life / support recently (2017 intel). I backed up then nuked the OS and replaced it with Mint/Cinnamon.
My wife (who is very definitely NOT technical in any way) has embraced this and carried on with no issues so far, with FF and LibreOffice. It’s been nearly 6mo and no home IT support required.
Edit: I think the point I’m trying to make is: if she can crack on with most regular tasks that really boil down to browser + office tools, and not be overly bothered about what the OS is, then there’s hope for people to migrate - especially with how distros have become so accessible of late.
one thing about millenial wives : they can linux through a shitty computer. Technically my one’s been using linux longer (this time round) than I have.
I mean, I had a 2011 Macbook with MacOS chugging along until early this year iirc, when the SSD croaked after another reboot due to power outage. I would probably still use it myself if not for the fact that Macbooks throttle the CPU when there’s no battery, since the power adapter can’t deliver peak power.
It has 16 GB of RAM, which is still the norm for laptops. Moreover, it actually supported higher RAM frequency than officially advertised, which I promptly exploited by buying said higher-freq RAM.
Call me when we start taking about BeOS, OS/2 and HyperDOS.
All my homies running Haiku
flashes gang signs made by my various USB drives
Minix til the day I die.
Computer scientists maybe. But real scientists know the meaning of the word average. And that out of, say, 1000 users, possibly only one is average.
Thanks for putting those links there. I was like I swear I saw a crappier version of this yesterday 😂
Okay but surely people get that BSD and Linux aren’t remotely the same thing, even though both are Unix-like and POSIX compatible, right?
We need to introduce the commoners to real time OS so they can ditch their fake time stuff
or we could just consider time as officially ended
Maybe the joke is that the comments would quibble over details that are fleeting in time and transcend operating systems instead.
BSD means something else methinks
Okay, I’ll bite. What?
Bungou Stray Dogs of course!
i thought the os was bds but that’s boycott, divest, sanction
bsd is berkley software distribution, an unix based os
Yeah yeah I know what they mean… Hahaha
It’s missing a little something, but I can’t put my finger on it
D-- Do you mean BDSM?! That would’ve been a better joke actually…
Indeed :p
