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    [–] EvilAlan@lemmy.radio 1 points 6 hours ago
    [–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 hours ago

    I'm not a gnoblin.
    I'm not a gnelf.
    I'm a gnome. And you've been...
    Gnooooommmmmmed!!!

    Back when video games had more imagination than pixels, there was a mech simulator game called G-Nome. Which was the name of the enemy, pronounced "Genome."

    [–] mittorn@masturbated.one 2 points 11 hours ago
    [–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 13 points 18 hours ago

    Yohohoho!

    I'm not a KDE, I'm not XFCE, I'm not LTQt, I'm not a Hyprland, I'm not a Cinnamon, I'm a Guh-Nome! And you have been Guh-Nomed!

    borks your Linux

    [–] TheLazyNerd@europe.pub 8 points 17 hours ago
    [–] reddifuge@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

    The Jraphics Interchange Format.

    [–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

    No it's not

    [–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 9 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

    If you add an "e" after the "G" then all of a sudden it's Science!

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    [–] CovfefeKills@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

    It would seem gnome is the correct pronunciation. GNU naming conventions are a pipe dream.

    [–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Phonetically it's pronounced "K-D-E-is-superior"

    But hey, language is protean. It evolves and flows like a river, daddy-o.

    [–] OR3X@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

    KDE MFs be like, "it's very intuitive." Meanwhile it looks like this:

    I've said it before, I'll say it again.

    Gnome is very aesthetic, but I swear it's useless. You open Gnome Something Utility and it opens a flat, empty window with no elements at all except up in the top bar there's a hamburger menu and a button that says "Do Something." It's perfectly rendered and kerned, it does something, as long as you want it to do the default something and you don't want to so something slightly different. The Gnome Something Utility is called Something in all menus but the name of the executable is GSU and there's no convenient way to find that out.

    KDE is configurable but kind of homely. It's damn near impossible to get two adjoining widgets to have the same font size and kerning. When you launch Komething, you are met by a baffling array of text boxes, radio buttons and drop-downs, there are menus and tabs, none of which are lined up quite right giving it a kind of Windows 98 era jank to it. You can do every kind of Something, Something Else and Something Completely Different under the sun. There are professional closed-source Something apps that don't have the features of Komething, but it looks like a Half Life mod configuration wizard a teenager made in 1999.

    Cinnamon is somewhere between those two extremes.

    [–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 8 points 19 hours ago

    You are correct. But you are missing the most important button. Right in the middle of that table there is a big red button that says "autopilot - Manage all these things for me and I can play with a few of those other buttons, or all, or even none, and the rest doesn't have to be touched by the user unless they want to"

    [–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

    Nice, so I can read all I want on keto?

    [–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    [–] serendepity@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (7 children)

    If gif is pronounced gif, then gnome should be pronounced gnome

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    [–] axexrx@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

    This only makes sense to me because my aunt worked on guh-noo.

    Linux/opensource naming can be the wildest stuff.

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