alt text: Scene of The Punisher where he is desperate having a nightmare, captioned “When a tiling window manager user has to use a MacOS/Windows desktop”
alt text: Scene of The Punisher where he is desperate having a nightmare, captioned “When a tiling window manager user has to use a MacOS/Windows desktop”
Linux developers can’t name their products any better than they name their variables.
“Programming done, time to publish, now it just needs a name…” briefly pauses, then smashes face into keyboard… “There! … ehh, no, still missing something.” clicks random spot, types X… “Perfect! Send it!”
For a long time I used the music player ncmpcpp. The name makes perfect sense if you already know what it means and how it relates to other things.
No Cunts Music Player (written in) C Plus Plus. that’s my guess
It did make sense at one point. They implemented a music player with a daemon part and a client part, so from that you had the mpd server and mpc client. Someone wrote an ncurses frontend for the client, naturally called ncmpc. Iirc that person abandoned it and someone else took over with a new iteration. ncmpcpp. But it really is a bad name.
That’s a cool story though. But yeah the name is a bit lettersoupy
To be fair, neither can enterprise outfits.
Teams
New Teams
Teams (new)
Probably more that I forgot
Neither can Nintendo.
3DS
New 3DS
Wii
Wii U
Well, they at least got the name of Switch 2 right. They finally learned.