I personally pronounce it with a hard G even when talking about the mythical creature because that's how it's pronounced in most other languages that have a similar word. Anglos can go fuck themselves with their needlessly complicated phonetics.
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Phonetically it's pronounced "K-D-E-is-superior"
But hey, language is protean. It evolves and flows like a river, daddy-o.
KDE MFs be like, "it's very intuitive." Meanwhile it looks like this:
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"
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.
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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
People who say guh -nome are the same sick psychos who pronounce GIF "Jiff".
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I'm not a gnoblin.
I'm not a gnelf.
I'm a gnome. And you've been...
Gnooooommmmmmed!!!
I use KDE because I never want to have to worry about how to pronounce it. There is no ambiguity with KDE, it's just K D E
It's pronounced kiddy.
Just KDEing..
My wife works at a bakery that uses an ordering system called FreshKDS (kitchen display system in case youβre wondering). She always calls it fresh kids.
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Meanwhile, me, a non-native English speaker:
One does not learn English the language, one simply memorises it
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If it makes anyone feel better, I watched a coworker write βsequelβ in her notes while I was talking about SQL.
That's actually cute, sometimes I wish I were innocent to the abomination of squeal
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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."
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We native speakers of German intuitively pronounce an audible "g" followed by an audible "n" when reading "GNOME" and find it weird that the ordinary word "gnome" is pronounced with a silent "g" in English. The cognate in our first language is "Gnom", pronounced with two consonants in the beginning, like the desktop environment.
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I don't know if I've had to say Gnome out loud before to another human person. I would go with the garden variety gnome myself.
For some reason I assumed it was G-NOME
That's the whole gimmick behind GNU projects... You pronounce the G. Because that's how you pronounce GNU.
Nah I just say gnu
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