"Just werks" (for "just [work](work.md)s" if that's somehow not clear) is a phrase used by [noobs](noob.md) to justify using a piece of technology while completely neglecting any other deeper and/or long term consequences. A noob doesn't think about technology further than how it can immediately perform some task for him.
This phrase is widely used on [4chan](4chan.md)/g, it probably originated there.
The "just werks" philosophy completely ignores questions such as:
- **Is there anything better in the long run?** A normie will always prefer a shitty software he can immediately use to a software that would take one day to learn and that would make the task many times easier, comfortable, cheaper etc.
- **Is this affecting my freedom?** A normie doesn't realize that by using proprietary or bloated program will limit the number of people who can maintain, fix and improve his software.
- **Is this affecting my security?** Of course noobs are completely oblivious to the fact that certain types of technology are just plain spyware.
- **How is this affecting my computing in a wider sense?** A normie won't even think about such thing as that using some proprietary format will likely immediately close the door to working with it with a FOSS program, or that installing a specific OS will limit what programs he can run.
- **Am I becoming a slave to this technology?** By adopting something proprietary and/or bloated I am slowly becoming dependent on an ecosystem that's completely under control of some corporation, an ecosystem that can quickly change for the worse or even disappear completely.
- **Am I supporting evil?** E.g. by paying to a corporation, letting someone collect data in the background, promoting a bad piece of technology etc.
- **Am I hurting better alternatives by not using them?** E.g. by using a proprietary social network gives one more user to it and one fewer to a potentially more ethical free social network.
- **Is there anything just plain better?** A normie will take the first thing that's handed to him and "just werks" without even checking if something better exists that would satisfy him better.
