This isn’t quite following the format. The “And X, of course.” line in the original is an example that’s more well known than the preceding examples, something that ponytail thinks is so obvious that it doesn’t even need to be mentioned (yet still something that the average person doesn’t know about).
i used https://marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-generator/ to remake it:
(posted here in !linuxmemes@lemmy.world)
I use my own custom made OS called PenOS that doesn’t even really work or do anything useful, but it does spam the word PENIS across your screen forever.
Don’t forget Temple OS
written in holy C
I started a class this year, a forensics class related to computers. The intro prompt is interesting, what computer do you have, windows or mac?
If you put Linux Mint on the average persons PC and set it up with the same desktop icons as their windows pc they wouldn’t know it wasn’t windows.
Just show them where the web browser is and done!
My dad has been running Linux Mint for almost 10 years now and he doesn’t know that LibreOffice isn’t “Linux.”
Yeah the avg people won’t even know about the TempleOS
Poor godless fools.
This feels like it was made by someone who was bored during their shift at the help desk lol
i’m reading this comment while bored at the helpdesk lol
One of the two is bound to be Hannah Montana linux
I would be surprised if the average person knows even one operating system, including the ones they use
someone told me their sound for meetings was coming out of their hard drive the other day. I knew what they meant but still.
now if it was a floppy drive I could believe them
Hold up, what did they mean because I cannot translate that
Non-technical people will sometimes refer to whatever piece of plastic or metal that contains electronic components of any sort but does not consist of an LCD display or obvious input device as a “hard drive”. This includes desktop boxes, external modems, docking stations, UPS systems, teleconferencing platforms, and far, far more. If it has das blinkenlights anywhere on it you can expect it to be referred to as a “hard drive” at some point. It will save you a headache if you just mentally translate their “hard drive” to mean “hardware” instead.
Alternatively, if it is a display device (an LCD monitor), expect that to be called either “the computer”, “the server”, or “the internet”.
Tech support has evolved since I got out. I don’t remember this specific point of confusion. However, during the last job I had that involved any level of help desk support with non-technical people, Obama was still in office.
Probably the desktop tower. I’ve seen many people call it a hard drive, but I’m actually not sure how common it is to have speakers in the tower.
Technically most motherboard has a piezo speaker for POST beeps. Not sure you can route meeting audio through it though.
If that’s true then how come I see non-programmers talk about the somewhat obscure OS developer, Dick Pick, all the time?
The average person has tried four or five different operating systems.
- The one preinstalled on their computer.
- The one preinstalled on their phone.
- The one preinstalled on their smart TV.
- ???
I wasn’t being serious, but I guess you can add in preinstalled on their gaming console
the average person has tried 0.7 operating systems
A BSD. There are multiple
And BEOS, of course.
Of course! How else am I going to play a video while I’m word processing?
