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Whenever I talk to not terminally online people (europe.pub)
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[–] 118 points 5 days ago (13 children)

My parents know one and it's windows. One time my dad messaged me at work to ask if his laptop had windows xp, vista, 7, 8, 10 or 11, so he doesn't even know the version differences :p

My mom may also say "samsung" as an operating system if you prod enough, but she also knows their laptop has windows 11, so she knows more than my dad

So that's what the average non-tech person thinks about OSes

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  • [–] 56 points 5 days ago (5 children)

    Yeah. A typical non-tech person is just as likely to say their PC is running on Microsoft or Google. Maybe they'll say Edge if they are really knowledgeable.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    In the case of the browser, they are still only describing use, not brand name.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

    They don't know what a browser is. That's just "The Internet".

    Edit: I got whooshed.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    I once had a user all me to "install the latest version of the internet on her computer".

    My first thought was "that's gonna take a hot minute..."

    She was referring to wanting the latest version of internet explorer, of course, but it didn't stop my "take everything literally" brain from going on a humorous aside imagining downloading the entire internet to this users machine.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Most of them are unaware of what an OS is even.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago

    Yep, my first level tech support experience absolutely confirms this. The question what operating system the client uses has gotten me a wide variety of answers, and most of them did not have anything to do with operating systems.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago*

    When I was a child, Windows 95 came out and people bought it without owning a computer, deciding they would get a household PC now.

    That level of hype is biblical and it sticks.

    Edit: Then of course, Bill openly said he likes Windows being pirated because it would be the OS of choice of everyone. People would only know Windows.

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