Re:Facebook loses users for the first time
by ho_schi on Thursday February 03, 2022 @07:27AM
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I likely use often also incorrect or misleading terms.
Yes. The mass market works (thinks) like that. Like you said, we're here on a tech board and therefore I refer to the actual definitions. Depends on situation when correct terms must be used or not.
Re:Facebook loses users for the first time
by touristtam on Thursday February 03, 2022 @07:40AM
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don't let it stop you correcting people calling their desktop PC a hard drive. We're technically on a tech board so the correction is _correct_.
Re:Facebook loses users for the first time
by soylentcola on Thursday February 03, 2022 @11:00AM
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Nah, the box on your desktop is the CPU. Just like "Adobe isn't working" means there's an issue opening/editing PDFs.
Technically, yes, that is correct, however, looking at the over 90% marketshare Windows has on the IBM/PC space, Windows is pretty much the synonym for the PC OS. Most laptops and PC's sold with an OS by retailers or OEMs, are shipped with Windows by default. It's basically a monopoly.
Sure, on tech boards like this one the proportion of people running some GNU/Linux based OS on their PC is much higher than the statistics, but the average joe consumer is 99% surely gonna have Windows on their PC which is where the assumption that "PC automatically equals Windows by default" comes from.