foss nerds stop being condescending to those who don't know the same things you do challenge (impossible)

submitted by carotte to linuxmemes 830 points | 156 comments alt text 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