2026-10-13 16:22 UTC
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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@davidgro@lemmy.world 2026-10-13 16:56
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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@Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2026-10-13 19:30
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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@tfm@europe.pub 2026-10-13 21:03
Your dad seems miles ahead knowing windows versions compared to the average person.
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@driftward@sopuli.xyz 2026-10-14 10:02
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.