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Picking nits is fine, but this seems like an irrelevant nit. Like I at least get the argument about calling Linux GNU/Linux, even if I don’t care… but this one,

Picking nits is fine, but this seems like an irrelevant nit. Like I at least get the argument about calling Linux GNU/Linux, even if I don’t care… but this one, I’m not sure why anyone would care.

pgtan 5y ago
I for myself get annoyed every time I see this misspell. The name is X Window. Even microserfs can learn it.
- beervirus 5y ago
  >microserfs Cringing intensifies.
- DonHopkins 5y ago
  1. Thank you for getting annoyed every time. 2. The name is not "X Window". Citation: See the June 1988 "XNextEvent" newsletter, The Official Newsletter of XUG, the X User’s Group, "Things That Happen When You Say ‘X Windows’", for the definitive list of its official names, and the dire consequences of getting it wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28522534 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28522534
johnklos 5y ago
Searches won't work properly because of people who don't care about correctness. That's the primary reason why some of us care.
- beervirus 5y ago
  That ship has sailed.
  - digisign 5y ago
    Not only sailed but probably decommissioned or at the bottom of the ocean by now.
    - DonHopkins 5y ago
      They're not U-Boats!!! It's the U Boat System.
- kalleboo 5y ago
  Both Google and Bing are smart enough to associate "X-Windows" with "X Window System"
fortran77 5y ago
The author of the linked article didn’t call it by the wrong name in the title. Changing the title to this incorrect name may mislead people into thinking that the person who wrote the linked content is incompetent, unqualified, or foolish.
- marcodiego 5y ago
  Check here: http://pupngo.dk/xwinflpy/Hacklin.htm http://pupngo.dk/xwinflpy/Hacklin.htm