Notices by maple (maple@hear-me.social)

@BrodieOnLinux Well they are wrong, the #Gnome desktop is pronounced with the G.

Would it really kill #developers to avoid naming things in such a way that the pronunciation is ambiguous? Prime example: #Ubuntu. I and everyone I know (that knows anything about Linux) calls it "You-bun-too" and since none of us were familiar with the African pronunciation of the word nor what it meant, we just started pronouncing it phonetically (American English) and that seems to be how everyone here still pronounces it, unless maybe they are making a speech or video. This confusion could have all been avoided if they had chosen another name with an unambiguous pronunciation, or maybe if they had printed (what they consider) the correct pronunciation on every CD cover or sleeve they sent out in the early. But almost no one, particularly in English-speaking North America, is really certain exactly how it is supposed to be pronounced, so many of us just keep saying "You-bun-too" !

There are probably a few other example of this in the tech world. But then beyond that there is the matter of developers using too similar names for versions. If I told you "I am running that #Debian version that starts with a B" you would probably have no idea which version I am talking about (Buzz? Bo? Buster? Bullseye? Bookworm?), yet if you are not a Toy Story fan (or don't have kids) you might have a real hard time keeping the versions straight!