Are you suggesting there is something wrong with any of these names:
- gimp
- finger
- john the ripper
- libcaca
- toilet
- fsck
unzip, strip, touch, finger, grep, mount, fsck, more, yes, fsck, fsck, fsck, umount, sleep
man
every Command Line Interface Tool
(not Linux but there are special printers for clothing called DTF’s )
man man
This week, I ran ‘man mount’ while learning about bind mounts.
I mean there are audiovisual teaching aids for how to mount men all over the Internet. Or so I’m told
In this context I really hope you mean aides.
I giggle every time I see ‘man touch’
I just watched that movie.
jq, ed
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Don’t forget
fuckI like how developers are not shying away from possibility of them having foot fetish (foot terminal, gnome logo being a foot)
The foot is actually symbolic for the devs stepping all over you with their opinionated design and no choices
Ah so BDSM then /s
No just BSD
BSDMobile?
IOS
I avoided Gnome for exactly that reason for years but the shell extensions for gnome have improved a lot and it’s pretty flexible now. If you don’t mind depending on the addin authors maintaining your favorites.Dash to panel or dock is virtually a whole different UI.
I honestly find it odd that anyone brings up “no choices” and “lack of customisation” as a point against GNOME at all… Nothing in any desktop environment comes close to the versatility of GNOME extensions.
finally someone says it.
the extensions might not be core utilities of gnome and break on an update, but they allow for customization that even kde doesn’t provide yet everyone is saying gnome has a “lack of customization”
Cinnamon ? albeit its a Gnome mutt anyway
KDE ehem…
Yes, KDE included. I don’t think you understand the level of flexibility that being able to monkey-patch the GNOME shell provides. And I say that as someone who loves both KDE and GNOME for different reasons.
Honestly, I personally feel sorry (with every intention to offend) that you and others like you settle for and defend tooth and nail a half-baked solution, glued together with saliva and that breaks every time a core GNOME developer decides on it like monkey-patching over a shitty API. Not to mention the fact that KDE also allows it, and I say this as a KDE user, for the deepest part of its extensibility and scriptability, but without breaking it just because it looked ugly, and also allows other types of extensions, such as compiled dynamic libraries, or Plasmoids and components.
Ngl, for me both GNOME and GTK+ suck, their governance, design principles, development principles, and both user-facing and dev-facing cultures, are authoritarian and really toxic. Look at, for example, the Mutter controversy, or the controversy woth GTK4 and the subsequent creation of both MATE and Cinnamon, or the drama with Zrythm (which author I do personally support) and FalkTX, etc.
Also, in Italian “sudo” means “I sweat”.
sudo nanomeans “I sweat, dwarf”
Man, I remember laughing like a school boy when I first heard of the “finger” util in college, lol.
Also
finger \! && exitUgh, “gimp”? Seriously?
And the name isn’t great either.
You’re right. And it would be so simple to just drop the G and make it Image Manipulation Program. They could even use the same impish logo!
They could, but they never will though. Chiefly because someone asked them to and, after stamping their feet like Veruca Salt, the devs have resolved to never ever stop pouting about it.
Someone could fork it, with just a different name. 😆
Green is my pepper.
GNU Image Manipulation Program or GIMP
Pip yay
Also bitchx
I’m crying rn, caca means poop in spanish 😭😭😭
Woah, poop is a good name for an util
wait until you hear of libpipi
Oh hell naw
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KDE’s tool to configure an IntelliPoint™ device.
Its called a cat-tongue. Everyone that refers to it as anything else is wrong
You mean ClitMouse
I’ve never heard the left 2 ones used IRL tbh
I have but I’m old and clearly remember when it came out.
It’s the Command Nubbin’
I used to call it the pointing nipple
Hehe Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back 👍
We need a command line interface named Toris. CLI Toris
I’m a dev. I develop little prototypes and things with Rust. I often create a new repository and don’t give the project a name, until I’ve coded enough of it that I know where it’s going.
A few years back, the makers of the programming language Rust started punishing people for prepending
rust-before the names of their tools and apps. They recommended that people append-rsto the end.The combination of these two things caused me to end up with a whole bunch of repositories named something like
cli-rsorclitool-rs, both of which I’d just pronounce asclitoris.Thought about this a little more. Cut and paste can be rebranded as excise and stitch.
The most clearest description of file explorer: Dolphin (?)
Like if Nautilus is any better
Or, like, Total Commander. A wild guess would be some strategy game.
Once a couple employers ago, I got an email from IT admins demanding that I uninstall that “game”.
The nautical theme also continues with Nemo
Meanwhile, Midnight Commander reads like the title to a pornogram.
Dolphin, the total commander of nautilus!
Wasn’t it named after Norton Commander?
I mean, yeah, but then the same applies to Norton Commander as well :D
PCManFM (rare LXDE W)
The application most likely to cause confusion among True Gamers™ who got fed up with Windows.
(PRO TIP:
dolphinis the KDE file manager,dolphin-emuis what you really want. PRO TIP 2: To defeat the PulseAudio daemon, shoot at it until it dies)Oh, a hybrid of dolphin and an emu. What a wonderful idea.
To defeat the PulseAudio daemon, shoot at it until it dies
Jack is potentially the most sensibly named.
Is pipewire pipe or wire? Only the gods are allowed to know that.
Just remove the execute bit and then it can’t run. (Or overwrite the first 4 bytes with nulls if you want to permanently disable it)
Or nautilus. My assumption is the files are in your sea not in their cloud.
Lumberjack or woodpecker honestly would have been better names since file systems are basically trees
If the file system is a tree, naming the file manager for someone whose job it is to destroy the tree seems silly.
Is that where
rangergot it’s name?
It kind of makes sense. You are swimming the sea of misorganized random piles of files and folders you have created.
Krusader.
KDE FTW.
Gnome: GSpot. It doesn’t actually exist (GNOME devs though there was no use case for it)
I can never find that program…
bash: klitoris: command not found...
:(No, you should
touch klitorisorfinger klitoris, not bash it.man klitorisno manual entry for klitorisWell that explains a lot.
This is such an underrated joke.
Use the -f option to find it
does anyone have the repo? I can’t find it
Inquiring minds must know
Is the GNOME version called Gock?
i think PCSX2 is the maddest i’ve ever been over a name. i’ve been using it for YEARS and have to double check the spelling every single time i type it.
Don’t recall if it had a Linux port, but anyone remembers Nesticle?
Followed by the tastefully named Snesticle
I remember the grainy low bit icon of a testicle on Windows.
i was familiar with zophar’s domain, yes.
edit wait fuck. sleep will help with reading comprehension, yes.
RPCS3 is similarly awkward to read and spell.
And ncmpcpp, which makes sense as it’s about 2 or 3 different forks from the original so the name got increasingly out of hand.
And ncmpcpp, which makes sense as it’s about 2 or 3 different forks from the original so the name got increasingly out of hand.
Ah yes the ncm<TAB> program. Used to give my brain half a stroke trying to remember the full name.
You mean RCPSX3? Or 4, the scam?
What happened with 4? I didn’t even know it existed until just now.
It doesn’t exist. Well, PCSX4 doesn’t, RPCS4 was a private project some years ago:
RPCS4 was a private project being worked on by one of the original developers of RPCS3, DH. Little is known about the project at the time, but we do know that it was expected to run on Unix-likes and can boot PS4 games without graphics
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/PlayStation_4_emulators footnote 2
PCSX4 was just malware/adware or similar if I recall correctly. It came into being long before PS4 emulation reached anything remotely resembling the concept of “playable”.
I hear you. The one that always gets me is PPSSPP. Every time I type it I miss out a letter and have to go back and fix it.
I memorized it as “PSP, but doubled”
Is that a command to summon the cats? PPSSPP PPSSPP
seems easy to remember for me
dyslexia may be a factor
Yeah, its a fun one, but it does have a logical reason.
PSX was the codename for the PS1, and what the internet community latched on to, especially after the PS2 came out and there needed to be clarity on which they were referring to.
One of the early PSX PC emulators decided to name themselves PCSX as an amalgamation of PC and PSX.
PCSX2’s team wanted to make a PS2 emulator on par with/inspired by (and maybe forked off of?) the PS1 emulator and decided to continue the naming convention.
And now we have the dislexia-unfriendly PCSX2 name.
ah dammit, that’s actually compelling reasoning! lmao
Then it should PCPSX or PSXPC, but the PCSX trips me up so hard. I hate it so much
Maybe, but it is meant as a portmanteau, and not just two abbreviations stuck together.
Like… if the National Aeronautics and Space Administration made a big light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation device, and decided to call it the NASER instead of NASALASER.
PC sex too. That’s how I read it.
I didn’t even know people read it. My eyes just glazed over the letters like it’s a picture lol.
Y’all remember the PSX emu Bleem! ? You could buy it commercially as a physical disk from the shelves of a store? I have no idea how they got away with it but that seems unthinkable these days.
I feel like, based on the interface, they just took PCSX, swapped the splash screen, and somehow distributed it commercially, along with even running TV ads. They must’ve been sued into oblivion by Sony.
Personally, I wasn’t allowed to own a computer until well after Bleem! went out of business (from running out of money for legal defence against sony).
That being said, looking at wikipedia, Bleem! started first, so PCSX was the one that stole the look and feel of Bleem!
Wow that’s news to me.
happens
I keep searching “RPCS2” and wondering why it doesn’t show up
Gonna make a TUI music player and call it D-Bussy
Aah D-Bussy! Everyone loves D-Bussy!
klitoris: Permission denied2026version: copilot internet 365 just shortened to copilot after the next MBA is hired.
Seriously, all Windows software is starting to sound the same, with as little clue as possible as to what it actually does. Remote Desktop on Mac is called “Windows App”. What does that mean? Everything else is called 365.
