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Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

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311 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 11 Dec 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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cranky908canuck ◴[11 Dec 25 23:54 UTC] No.46239064[source]▶
Yep. Just did a reimage update to Fedora 43, got errors about 'ptyxis' in some shell scripts. Wat (wipes desk and keyboard)?

Oh, it's the graphical terminal program (alternative to 'gnome-terminal'). Well, um, ok.

However, I will concede, after more digging as to why (as it rankled), that there was a "have to choose a unique name" issue there (even leaving aside trademark issues). I'm resigned (so I suppose signed up) to deal with residual issues that crop up going forward.

I love to mock '*ly.com' names for almost certainly doomed enterprises, but I get that at least it wasn't already taken.

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dinkleberg ◴[12 Dec 25 00:11 UTC] No.46239252[source]▶
It’s a solid terminal, but could they have chosen a worse name?
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1. cranky908canuck ◴[12 Dec 25 00:38 UTC] No.46239453[source]▶
There's another comment that points out that a g-le search will pick up few false positives (disclaimer, have not tried myself). So the initial 'WTF' gives way to 'well, ok, I see what you are trying to do'.