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This is so incredibly niche, though. The average person wouldn't run half this stuff.
by Klonoar 8y ago
This is so incredibly niche, though. The average person wouldn't run half this stuff.
- chipotle_coyote 8y agoThe idea of the "average person" is always something of a red herring, though. The stuff the OP listed was: - Safari A lot of people run web browsers. - Firefox (streaming audio) A lot of people stream audio. - A program converting a 500 page PDF to 500 300dpi PNGs That's a weird one, sure. - A bash script extracting PDFs from a municipal web site. Also weird, but "average people" need to do some kind of automation once in a blue moon, so let's not discount that. - A program downloading my video viewing for the week and converting it to a format better suited for my iPad The conversion is unusual, but people download videos to their iPad. - iTunes serving audio and video to TVs in two different rooms A little niche, but "media server" is still a thing. - An FTP program doing weekly backups Backups are a thing. A thing more people should be doing, but definitely a thing. - A mail client Not niche at all. - A VPN client Not niche if your office requires a VPN. A lot do. - A spreadsheet Definitely not niche. - An IDE (Coda2) Sorta niche-y, but think of it as "text editor" and it's less so: it could be a word processor, or Scrivener.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoMust we always trot out the "average user" as an excuse for why things suck?