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.
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.
Also every two versions, Gnome will decide that the way Something used to be done was Bad, and Wrong, and we will never talk about it again, for now we will all embrace the new and inconvenient way of doing Something, which is clearly superior.
That’s the main thing I reject about Gnome. It’s not like the other girls.
Modern gnome sucks. gnome 2 was peak imo.
Which is what MATE is. It’s "No, we’re gonna keep doing Gnome 2.
Yeah, and I tried MATE but it just doesn’t hit the same. I mostly use cinnamon and xfce these days.
Ahh! Home!
Just need to paint all panels and table surfaces black and highlight the knobs and dials.
Nice, so I can read all I want on keto?
Jnome, like gif.
If gif is pronounced gif, then gnome should be pronounced gnome
Gi gives the g a j sound. Like gist, gibberish, giraffe, giant do at least that one is easy to pick up on.
I love how you state that as a fact as if words like give, gift, gill, gibbon, giddy, etc don’t exist.
please tell me you call it JIT-HUB.
I do now.
Hi Jinny
Gi gives
You will also note that the pronunciation of gif is debated despite me saying it’s easy to pick up on.
It was a tongue-in-cheek response. The English alphabet doesn’t convey pronunciation.
Gift
Like the peanut butter?
Choosy moms choose gif.
that’s evil gnome, if written in Java
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
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.”
Our DNA guh nome.
I was wondering just now if that was what the devs were going for, originally? I had never thought about it.
I guess I missed the joke, because I always assumed there was no ambiguity on the pronunciation… Are there people saying “G nome”, really ? I bet they calls GIF files Jiff, too!
🤣 now I have “Jnomee” in my head and will never be able to un-hear that
Yes there are those who insist that the GNOME desktop environment is pronounced “guh-nome” because of GNU.
See, all open source software projects must have complete diaper fire names. Bonus points if you put more thought into the name than the software, like HURD.
Oh, it’s not “gee new”?
Or WINE 🥰
WINE is true, it Is Not Emulation.
The one I hate is LAME, which definitly IS an MP3 Encoder.
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
If you add an “e” after the “G” then all of a sudden it’s Science!
I thought it was either gnome (as in garden gnome) or genome (as in genetics).
What the fuck is a guhnome
Wouldn’t you like to guhnome
Guhnome is for people that can’t make the back of the throat an nasal ng sound when saying ngnome
You’ve blinded me!
Its pronounced GIF
The Jraphics Interchange Format.
SCUBA - self-contained oonderwater breathing apparatus
Laser - light ay-mplification by ztimulated emission (good luck pronouncing the e) of radiation
ASAP - Ay-s Soon As Possible
TUBA - Terrible Underwater Breathing Apparatus
Praise Jod for your comment. I’d jive you a jift but i don’t know where you live
Just dont send me a giant giraffe. I’d take some gin though, or I could even use some ginger. Im sure you get the gist
I see your argument and discount it entirely.
oonderwater
It’s eunderwater
No it’s not
Nginx should be pronounced ŋiŋks and rhyme with sphinx
I can’t even begin to know how to pronounce Nginx.
Engine X. I think.
I didn’t know that Elon Musk also wrote a webserver.
I only found that out within the last year. I’ve been pronouncing it like in-jinx for about a decade.
For those curious - it’s engine-x.
Engine X.
en-jinx
oh just get caught in your own zipper and you will nginx correctly
This only makes sense to me because my aunt worked on guh-noo.
What’s the story behind /etc/ as /etsy/?
I always saw it as “et cetera”, so the “et” came naturally to me
I always read it as “et-c” to get that pronunciation
