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
And of course, they’ll know about GNU Hurd, Ironclad, Plan9, Haiku, Solaris, IRIX, Kolibrios, TempleOS, SerenityOS, FreeDOS and Android. But will they have heard of Ginux or Pluto?
Maybe the joke is that the comments would quibble over details that are fleeting in time and transcend operating systems instead.
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.
Most people actually probably don’t know what an operating system is.
Just as accurately, the meme could be:
“[…] the average person probably only knows Android, iOS, Windows, and MacOS.”
“And Linux, of course.”
“Of course.”
I get why they would know only windows and macos, but none at all?!
Many people do not think about an OS when they think Windows or Mac
Like asking a fish how’s the water, and they respond “what’s water?”.
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?
Some distros do blur the line even for those who can distinguish the two.
