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No real indictment on the quality of the OS nor on the effort that people have put into the project, but why, oh why, did they pick a name which has two differe
by johnday 7y ago
No real indictment on the quality of the OS nor on the effort that people have put into the project, but why, oh why, did they pick a name which has two different special characters in it?
It looks like they're trying hard to push this OS but they seem to have hurt their chances of SEO by creating a name which is both unpronouncable (pop exclamation mark underscore OS) and unsearchable.
- colonwqbang 7y agoWhile I agree the name is silly, it seems to work in Google. Both "pop os" and "pop!_os" returned their page as the first result for me.
- dajohnson89 7y agoas a programmer, I really wish they're was a google setting that respected special characters. in general the algorithm seems to throw them all out discriminately. perhaps they're not indexed at all, for performance reasons?
- dajohnson89 7y agoit's something of a trend in music, to have special characters in the artist's name. especially with "underground" acts, it's almost like the more unpronounceable or SEO-able the name is, the cooler you are. at any rate, Yahoo! worked out ok, until it didn't.
- mattl 7y agoI thought maybe to match the length of “Ubuntu” but I guess not.
- fuzzfactor 7y agoIt gets worse. When mounting the Intel ISO in Windows the resulting CASPER_P.10_ folder does not match the /casper_pop-os_19.10_amd64_intel_debug_21/ path designation for vmlinuz, initrd, & live-media-path found in boot\grub\grub.cfg & isolinux\isolinux.cfg IOW, mounts as a disk fileset of questionable bootability, confirmed fundamentally failing by SYSLINUX over USB. Even though it boots when burned to optical disk. This is an insidious defect, not present in the underlying Ubuntu distribution. Long folder names and/or special characters do not seem to be an ideal approach.