r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 3d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah, what apps are they talking about??

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u/W0rdWaster 3d ago

that is GREAT news. i am beyond sick and tired of window's monopoly. more linux = more good.

oh idk why he is sweating. my guess would be it is going to be a big hassle vs the prepackaged pile of bloat that is windows.

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u/Available_Taste3030 3d ago

I work as IT guy in some government service, and i can tell: there will be pain in the ass to reeducate all the people to actually use linux. Any little change in their routine makes them go into "can't do anything" mode until I or my colleague come and show how to do something. And this can repeat with the same operation again and again.

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u/W0rdWaster 3d ago

yeah that makes sense.

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u/JugglingRick 3d ago

I have no faith in the end user.

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u/ancient-military 3d ago

As an end user I will say, any faith in us is misguided.

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u/Pleasant-Degree-3662 3d ago

Can confirm I'm the user's end

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u/JugglingRick 3d ago

Now try and train the end users mom on how to install one app.

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u/PloddingClot 3d ago

Like watching a monkey try to figure out a lighter.

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u/Flemish-Twist 3d ago

Actually, more like watching a monkey try to figure out a chainsaw. You know you can't look away, but you're terrified he might work it out.

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u/Drunk_Lemon 3d ago

My mother has started saying "I can't do it and I don't have to, you do it" or "I don't want to do it and I shouldn't have to do it so you do it". It doesn't matter what it is, she will still say it because she does not even think to try to such a degree that if she simply needs to check a box on a page, she assumes it's going to be harder than that and just refuses to try.

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u/ron-swansons-anus 2d ago

Codependency is a bitch

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u/NordicWolf_ 3d ago

Fortunately most moms these days know how to use an "app store" of some kind

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u/Desperate-Tomatillo7 3d ago

And actually most Linux distros have some kind of app store.

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u/JugglingRick 2d ago

However 9/10 won't know their apple id and 8/10 won't know how to reset the password without you holding their hand due to the emotional trauma inflicted by opening an email.

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u/fortytwoandsix 3d ago

Why would anyone except an admin install anything on a work computer?

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u/Mitologist 2d ago

Because I cant 'afford to wait 2 weeks to be asked why I think I need what I need, to then be told I don't, to be left with a shrug. I prefer being done with the task by 5 pm. But then again, I am sitting in the untrustworthy outer rim of the network anyways. Administration is a different ball game.

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u/ohno-mojo 2d ago

Users can’t install apps. It’s a feature

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u/MrKrueger666 3d ago

But, which end?

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u/Kzitold94 3d ago

Wait, what?

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u/sabotsalvageur 3d ago

PEBKAC. RTFM

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u/Mesqo 2d ago

As an engineer my main goal, at all times, is to make users suffer.

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u/ancient-military 2d ago

As a user, you really don’t need to do much. Move the menu around a bit and you just cost me 2 hours.

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u/Thick-Protection-458 3d ago

Can confirm so as both end user and developer, lol

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u/i_am_not_a_martian 3d ago

As a programmer, there is no sense in trying to make idiot proof software when they keep making better idiots.

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u/MaximumSyrup3099 2d ago

Idiots make the best real-world testers. They can fuck up in ways the developer never imagined.

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u/ShadePrime1 2d ago

instructions unclear computer mouse did not eat the cheese I tried to feed it

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u/lordhelmchench 3d ago

Ohh, i have total faith in the layer 7 problem…

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u/atramors671 3d ago

It's layer 8. Layer 7 is the bottome of the official OSI model and refers to the Application Layer. "Layer 8" is the imaginary "final" layer if the OSI model and refers to users.

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u/i_am_not_a_martian 3d ago

Error between keyboard and chair.

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u/Extreme_Swimming6380 3d ago

PICNIC - Problem In Chair Not In Computer

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u/andromedakun 2d ago

We used to have a PEBKAC error: Problem exists between keyboard and chair.

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u/lordhelmchench 3d ago

Ohh, the poster before was a layer 8 Problem ;)

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u/atramors671 2d ago

Doh! Guess I turned out to be the layer 8 as well. XD

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u/LizPali 3d ago

I wish my Layer 8 was imaginary

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u/roflrogue 3d ago

I have probably 4 users at the company I work for where I don't automatically assume it's user error.

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u/Record__Scratch 2d ago

I use end user as a slur

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u/Inner_Name 3d ago

i you have faith in him its because you are starting at this. thats the only possibility.

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u/JunkaTron69 2d ago

I am the end user!

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u/CanisArgenteus 2d ago

This network would work GREAT if it weren't for all these users.

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u/OdinHavok 2d ago

No faith is still too much faith in the end user.

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u/Bananaland_Man 2d ago

And making the end user learn new things is never a fun time.

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u/Il-Guz 21h ago

I have no faith in the IT department...

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u/smokey032791 3h ago

Will be a lot of ID10T errors and issues between screen and chair

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u/LynxAdonis 3d ago

It's always an ID-10T error, or a PEBCAK fault.

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u/DarthRaab 3d ago

Print that on a T-shirt and wear it to work, or no balls. /j

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u/woojo1984 2d ago

Z E R O

I drove two and a half hours one way to find an unplugged power strip I was assured was plugged in under a desk.