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whalesalad 3y ago
Boggles my mind that they gave their distribution such a bizarre name with those characters. Something something there are only two hard problems in computer science...
- steviedotboston 3y ago
  "Linux distro with a bizarre name gets improved support for features that have worked out of the box in Windows and macOS for decades"
  - yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
    It's better than that - more like, "Desktop environment for Linux distro with a bizarre name gets improved support for features that have worked out of the box in other Linux DEs for decades". Which, granted, is the cost of making a new DE yourself, but still funny.
    - timeon 3y ago
      Not sure what is the point of this thread since even Linux/Windows/MacOs are bizarre names.
      - wharvle 3y ago
        Those don't have a combo of typography and word choice that looks like a children's birthday party supply store's name was merged with the results of a cat walking on the keyboard.
  - tommica 3y ago
    Every day small children learn to walk, even though others have done it for millennia
- wharvle 3y ago
  Despite all the buzz around it, the name's truly kept me away. It's hard to believe people who named something so comically-terribly didn't also make a bunch of other so-bad-they-wouldn't-seem-like-plausible-parody decisions in other places.
  - timeon 3y ago
    Wait till you find out that there is even DE called 'Gnome'.
    - ragnese 3y ago
      And how it's pronounced!
    - wharvle 3y ago
      "The gimp" is infamous for sometimes getting it excluded from consideration. I once had a new manager after an acquisition do a (pathetic) security audit of our servers and get vey upset at finding a binary called "finger". True story. Somewhere along the way we've lost the ability to have a word that means something "dirty" and also retains other meanings that people can use without someone immediately thinking of the dirty meaning. Though I enjoy their sort of thing, I think Beavis and Butthead and their successors (e.g. South Park) may be responsible for the evidently-recent development of such extreme sensitivity to those kinds of multiple-meaning words.
      - whalesalad 3y ago
        In high school I tried to use Gimp for a UI/UX class and my teacher flipped her shit and went on a 30 minute diatribe on how un-PC I was being. I tried to explain that it was in fact a popular open source software package for graphic design. That entire school was a friggin nightmare.
  - throwawaymaths 3y ago
    Have you tried it? It's better than mint, which is what I used before for an "Im too busy programming to be assed with Linux configuration" distro

Boggles my mind that they gave their distribution such a bizarre name with those characters. Something something there are only two hard problems in computer science...

steviedotboston 3y ago
"Linux distro with a bizarre name gets improved support for features that have worked out of the box in Windows and macOS for decades"
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
  It's better than that - more like, "Desktop environment for Linux distro with a bizarre name gets improved support for features that have worked out of the box in other Linux DEs for decades". Which, granted, is the cost of making a new DE yourself, but still funny.
  - timeon 3y ago
    Not sure what is the point of this thread since even Linux/Windows/MacOs are bizarre names.
    - wharvle 3y ago
      Those don't have a combo of typography and word choice that looks like a children's birthday party supply store's name was merged with the results of a cat walking on the keyboard.
- tommica 3y ago
  Every day small children learn to walk, even though others have done it for millennia
wharvle 3y ago
Despite all the buzz around it, the name's truly kept me away. It's hard to believe people who named something so comically-terribly didn't also make a bunch of other so-bad-they-wouldn't-seem-like-plausible-parody decisions in other places.
- timeon 3y ago
  Wait till you find out that there is even DE called 'Gnome'.
  - ragnese 3y ago
    And how it's pronounced!
  - wharvle 3y ago
    "The gimp" is infamous for sometimes getting it excluded from consideration. I once had a new manager after an acquisition do a (pathetic) security audit of our servers and get vey upset at finding a binary called "finger". True story. Somewhere along the way we've lost the ability to have a word that means something "dirty" and also retains other meanings that people can use without someone immediately thinking of the dirty meaning. Though I enjoy their sort of thing, I think Beavis and Butthead and their successors (e.g. South Park) may be responsible for the evidently-recent development of such extreme sensitivity to those kinds of multiple-meaning words.
    - whalesalad 3y ago
      In high school I tried to use Gimp for a UI/UX class and my teacher flipped her shit and went on a 30 minute diatribe on how un-PC I was being. I tried to explain that it was in fact a popular open source software package for graphic design. That entire school was a friggin nightmare.
- throwawaymaths 3y ago
  Have you tried it? It's better than mint, which is what I used before for an "Im too busy programming to be assed with Linux configuration" distro