• Tech Support: “May I ask what operating system you are running today?”
• Customer: “A computer.

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• Friend: “I heard about this thing called ‘Linux’.”
• Me: “Oh, I use Linux.”
• Friend: “What is it?”
• Me: “An operating system.”
• Friend: “Like Firefox?”

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Overheard in a software shop:

• Woman #1: “What this Linux thing?”
• Woman #2: “It’s a program that if you have it on your computer, you can’t turn the computer off.”
• Woman #1: “Oh.”

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• Tech Support: “How can I help you?”
• Customer: “Well, everything is working fine, but there is one program that is not.”
• Tech Support: “What program is it?”
• Customer: “It’s called ‘MSDOS Prompt’.”
• Tech Support: “What’s wrong with it?”
• Customer: “Well, I click on it, a black screen shows up with NOTHING but a sign that reads: ‘C:\WINDOWS>’, and it just sits there and doesn’t do anything. I have to turn off the system to go back to Windows.”

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