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> Say what you will about the UI/UX but it remains top tier free software. Just don't mention the name.

by roenxi 2y ago

Lammy 2y ago
Call it GNU IMP if it bothers you
- balamatom 2y ago
  Some classic FOSShead contrariness on their part. They shoulda used the major release to officially rename it to GNU IMP, if you ask me. GNU could use the publicity and an "imp" is definitely cuter than a "gimp".
- TylerE 2y ago
  Imp isn't much better, especially south of the Bible Belt.
  - the_af 2y ago
    How do they feel about unix daemons or the FreeBSD mascot?
    - GuinansEyebrows 2y ago
      They use Windows Server.
    - solardev 2y ago
      And never mention chmod 666 or fsck...
    - flykespice 2y ago
      When I was a teenager I wanted to try FreeBSD but got turned away by the daemon mascot. I didn't want my christian conservative parents to keep berating at me as if I turned in to the devil for choosing a OS that has a mascot that resembles one.
    - II2II 2y ago
      My parents were quite tolerant of my devil worship[1], but they did tell me to hide my BSD Unix books when religious relatives visited. [1] I think they knew Beastie was a harmless computer thing, but they also thought the moon was the size of a basketball.
    - lmm 2y ago
      Angry/hateful often enough to cause trouble.
  - dpkirchner 2y ago
    At some point they'll just have to grow up.
    - wtcactus 2y ago
      As much as do the people that get offended by the word "gimp", I guess.
- evanb 2y ago
  Shouldn't it expand to GIMP IMP? Or GIMP IMP IMP? Or GIMP IMP IMP IMP IMP? Maybe the fixed point is G...IMP?
  - roenxi 2y ago
    GNU/Linux/IMP
buu700 2y ago
I was actually a regular user of GIMP for years before I learned that the word had any other definition. While working at a summer camp as a teenager, I happened to install it on an office computer. One day I'm doing some work in the office, when all of a sudden I hear one of the camp directors in the other room laugh and ask why some perverted program called "gimp" was in the list of applications.
raverbashing 2y ago
Or maybe they could all sit down for 5 minutes and think of a better name But of course that won't happen

> Say what you will about the UI/UX but it remains top tier free software. Just don't mention the name.

by roenxi 2y ago

> Say what you will about the UI/UX but it remains top tier free software. Just don't mention the name.

Lammy 2y ago

Call it GNU IMP if it bothers you

balamatom 2y ago
Some classic FOSShead contrariness on their part. They shoulda used the major release to officially rename it to GNU IMP, if you ask me. GNU could use the publicity and an "imp" is definitely cuter than a "gimp".
TylerE 2y ago
Imp isn't much better, especially south of the Bible Belt.
- the_af 2y ago
  How do they feel about unix daemons or the FreeBSD mascot?
  - GuinansEyebrows 2y ago
    They use Windows Server.
  - solardev 2y ago
    And never mention chmod 666 or fsck...
  - flykespice 2y ago
    When I was a teenager I wanted to try FreeBSD but got turned away by the daemon mascot. I didn't want my christian conservative parents to keep berating at me as if I turned in to the devil for choosing a OS that has a mascot that resembles one.
  - II2II 2y ago
    My parents were quite tolerant of my devil worship[1], but they did tell me to hide my BSD Unix books when religious relatives visited. [1] I think they knew Beastie was a harmless computer thing, but they also thought the moon was the size of a basketball.
  - lmm 2y ago
    Angry/hateful often enough to cause trouble.
- dpkirchner 2y ago
  At some point they'll just have to grow up.
  - wtcactus 2y ago
    As much as do the people that get offended by the word "gimp", I guess.
evanb 2y ago
Shouldn't it expand to GIMP IMP? Or GIMP IMP IMP? Or GIMP IMP IMP IMP IMP? Maybe the fixed point is G...IMP?
- roenxi 2y ago
  GNU/Linux/IMP

buu700 2y ago

I was actually a regular user of GIMP for years before I learned that the word had any other definition. While working at a summer camp as a teenager, I happened to install it on an office computer. One day I'm doing some work in the office, when all of a sudden I hear one of the camp directors in the other room laugh and ask why some perverted program called "gimp" was in the list of applications.

raverbashing 2y ago

Or maybe they could all sit down for 5 minutes and think of a better name But of course that won't happen