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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

  • thevoidzero@lemmy.world
    19·
    12 hours ago

    I used to think everyone at least knew VLC media player or Firefox, but nope.

    Now I first ask which field, if they’re CS they know linux, if art, they know blender, if geosciences they know QGIS, anything else is hard

    • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      maybe orcaslicer for 3d printing people? seems like the most popular nowadays, although it’s getting so fragmented with every manufacturer’s own slicer branch…

      yeah, this is hard

      oh, people who do streaming or youtubing stuff probably know OBS

      there’s also probably a certain demographic for audacity

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
      6·
      11 hours ago

      Haha I’m an aspiring game dev and I know a little bit about a ton of software!

      …and I suck at most of it. But I can hold a conversation about it at least! :D

      P.S: Haven’t heard of QGIS tho! My partner used ARCGIS though, and would always get annoyed when I pronounced it “Ark-jizz.”