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it’s such a pet peeve, but the unRAID community normalizing the usage of “Dockers” for “Docker containers” makes me twitch.

• vanchor3 5y ago
  That's a good point. I never thought of that before, unfortunately I tend to pickup bad habits like that by watching the way others write. Though I do have to wonder if the Docker team would have used that term were it not already a registered trademark. I suppose it does sound a little silly.
  • n42 5y ago
    that's not your bad habit, that's just how language evolves naturally. like I said, a pet peeve. the part that makes me twitch is that the evolution of the term is happening in a hobbyist community, where I've never heard a professional use the term. when I read it it doesn't make linguistic since to me -- a "Docker" is not a thing, what is its plural? anyway, you do you.
• remram 5y ago
  I regularly cringe when people refer to "Docker images" as "containers" but this is a step further.
• mattl 5y ago
  That’s close to the usage of “screen saver” to mean wallpaper/background image and those people who think MAC and Mac are the same.