it's so hard trying to convince people to use software i like. it's so hard to say shit like:
- "consider the fediverse"
- "you can do this with GIMP"
- they picked a name that has TWO pretty bad connotations!
- "you should use less, it's like more, i know the name isn't descriptive,"
- "have you checked the man page?"
- "you should use WINE. what does it stand for? 'WINE' is not an emulator. no, that's its name. yeah you need to get used to recursive acronyms"
- "you might want keepass. no, nono, it's keep - puh - pass"
- "godot is intentionally named after the play, are we really going to dump it for amazon lumberyard?"
that's not even naming all the open source software with names appropriated from indigenous culture like apache, thunderbird, etc. at the very least,
the above are all approximations of real conversations i had. especially GIMP. especially GIMP.
it's hard to name them all but FOSS people are very bad at names. postmill joins the rank of Good Software with Good Names:
- Blender
- Firefox
- NextCloud
- Python hehe ssss snake ssss
- Also Jupyter
- Probably a lot of languages I'm not thinking of right now
flabberghaster wrote
It's really too bad the glimpse project went defunct.
There should be more forks of software that are 99% just changing the name. (Glimpse was much more than that I know)