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Yeah, I find "X11", while less ambiguous, reminds me too much of macOS users because that's how it's usually referred to as there, as if it's foreign thing. On

Yeah, I find "X11", while less ambiguous, reminds me too much of macOS users because that's how it's usually referred to as there, as if it's foreign thing. On Linux, saying "X11" is like calling it by its full first name, and since we're long-time buddies, we're on a first-name basis and just call it by its short nickname X. At a formal dress party, we'll call it the X Window System, and if we were introducing it to royalty, we'd say X Window System, Protocol 11, Revision 6.

teddyh 3y ago
“The X.Org Foundation requests that the following names be used when referring to this software: X X Window System X Version 11 X Window System, Version 11 X11 ” — <https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/man/man7/X.7.xhtml https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/man/man7/X.7.xhtml>
gtf21 3y ago
As a Linux user, I still call it X11, and it's in `/etc` as `/etc/X11`, so I don't think I'm that far wrong.