Brodie Robertson and everybody else in the linux world keeps yelling at people for wanting steamOS on PC when they should "just install bazzite".

It is impossible to explain to a linuxfag that their failed community ecosystem is in large part due to their compete inability to name things.
"SteamOS" -- it's an OS for steam
"ChromeOS" -- it's an OS for chrome
"Microsoft Office" -- "I guess that's tools you'd use in an office"
"Mapquest" -- guess I look at maps
"Door dash" -- "they dash things to your door
"Minecraft" -- you mine things and you craft things

"bazzite" -- what the fuck does that mean
"gnome" -- what the fuck does that mean
"mutter" -- is that like a mumble alternative?
"Wayland" -- like from Aliens?
"minetest" -- sounds like Minecra-- oh wait you changed it to "Luanti" WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN

@RustyCrab Don't think that bad names are limited to Linux ecosystem, but it does suffer the most there I guess. As much as I love KDE... "Kcalc", "Kate", "Konsole", "K3b", "Kasts"... just... stop...

@alyx even those aren't as bad as the examples I gave. At least I know what they do except k3b, and Kate I guess
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@RustyCrab k3b is for DVD burning, though it's understandable that people have forgotten about that. Kate is the text editor.... a damn good text editor, but you wouldn't know to search for it if you weren't on a KDE distro.

@alyx I like what gnome does where they alias their names in the app search. Mousepad, notepad and "text editor" take you to the same thing

@RustyCrab Point is, even the good names are stupid as fuck... stop putting K in front of everything...

@alyx @RustyCrab kate is not even the default one, kwrite is. i only learned about kate by accident

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Through the KDE distro I started with, I think Kate was the default. And I kept using it. That would have been 8 years ago, so hope my memory is correct. On what I use now, it's not, and I have to install it. But I think it's still the better known text editor for KDE.

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