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foss nerds stop being condescending to those who don't know the same things you do challenge (impossible)
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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
Ok so how different is Firefox from any other web browser? Seems like the basics are all pretty similar. Address bar, bookmarks, click links. But maybe I am showing my bias here. What am I missing?
Chrome based browsers are riddled with privacy invasive features, data collection etc...
Also, ad blocking in chrome is crippled purposely because Google wants ad revenue.
Firefox has less of these anti features, and there are plenty of Firefox derivatives that have none of them.
don't forget that some of chrome is encrypted and only Google gets to see the sauce
where as all of Firefox is available to look at, but it's a mess of years and years of building, so it's impossible to understand unless you're dedicated