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    foss nerds stop being condescending to those who don't know the same things you do challenge (impossible) (files.catbox.moe)
    submitted 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) by carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    alt textAn 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

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    [–] Auth@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

    I found it funny how condescending all the foss nerds have been to the problems in the LTT linux video. So many people were mad that someone unfamiliar with linux didnt know everything and have a perfect experience. The worst part was they had this opinion and attacked the user while demonstrating they had absolutely no idea what the issues were caused by and could have easily run into the same issue.

    [–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 10 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

    Are we talking about that original one? Where he tried Pop!_OS and tried to install Steam and the package installer gave a big message that something wasn't right, so he chuckled, TL;DR'd and hit "yes anyway" and was shocked he borked his install?

    That LTT?

    I'm never gonna fault somebody for unfamiliarity, but we should absolutely fault people, especially ones with any tech experience, for not reading helpful messages right in front of them.

    [–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 13 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

    i am reminded about this one time i was doing desktop support at a hospital. super smart doctor was having a problem and i asked them to recreate the problem for me

    oh they did... and instantly clicked the error away when it showed up and then instantly looked at my for an answer

    i asked them to do it again, same

    i was flabbergasted... i had to point out that i need to know what that error was

    "oh it's the same thing it always says" was the reply

    thankfully i understood the the workflow and asked to sit and recreated the error again.... AND guess what? IT FUCKING TOLD THEM EXACTLY HOW TO RESOLVE THE PROBLEM

    [–] rain_worl@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

    wow i would hide a note in my chest cavity before they do surgery on me
    a bloody slip of paper hidden within my ribcage, enscribed "learn how to read, idiot!"

    [–] Auth@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

    Both. Neither are what I would expect to be the new users fault. The warning message was vauge. You are about to do something potentially harmful is a warning that comes up on a ton of things like deleting a user or a folder. usually you think about what you're doing an if you know what you're doing then you proceed. He thought he was just installing steam and so he proceeded.