Are you suggesting there is something wrong with any of these names:
- gimp
- finger
- john the ripper
- libcaca
- toilet
- fsck
this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2026
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Pip yay
unzip, strip, touch, finger, grep, mount, fsck, more, yes, fsck, fsck, fsck, umount, sleep
man
every Command Line Interface Tool
(not Linux but there are special printers for clothing called DTF's )
Don't forget fuck
I like how developers are not shying away from possibility of them having foot fetish (foot terminal, gnome logo being a foot)
The foot is actually symbolic for the devs stepping all over you with their opinionated design and no choices
Ugh, "gimp"? Seriously?
And the name isn't great either.
Can't find the app guys. Where is it? Bruh. Help me someone, my girlfriend is coming home and I don't want to get mocked for the same thing two days in a row.
KDE's tool to configure an IntelliPoint™ device.
Its called a cat-tongue. Everyone that refers to it as anything else is wrong
You mean ClitMouse
It's the Command Nubbin'
The kernel library for integrating telecommunications operations and their requirements into the system? I think there was a patch for that in my update manager last week.
(With thanks to Red Dwarf for providing a template for this one.)
i think PCSX2 is the maddest i’ve ever been over a name. i’ve been using it for YEARS and have to double check the spelling every single time i type it.
I hear you. The one that always gets me is PPSSPP. Every time I type it I miss out a letter and have to go back and fix it.
Somehow, I perfectly remember ncmpcpp (what does any of that even mean? something with C++ I guess?) but struggle with lighttpd (light+httd+daemon).
seems easy to remember for me
dyslexia may be a factor
Yeah, its a fun one, but it does have a logical reason.
PSX was the codename for the PS1, and what the internet community latched on to, especially after the PS2 came out and there needed to be clarity on which they were referring to.
One of the early PSX PC emulators decided to name themselves PCSX as an amalgamation of PC and PSX.
PCSX2's team wanted to make a PS2 emulator on par with/inspired by (and maybe forked off of?) the PS1 emulator and decided to continue the naming convention.
And now we have the dislexia-unfriendly PCSX2 name.
PC sex too. That's how I read it.
ah dammit, that’s actually compelling reasoning! lmao
Then it should PCPSX or PSXPC, but the PCSX trips me up so hard. I hate it so much
Maybe, but it is meant as a portmanteau, and not just two abbreviations stuck together.
Like... if the National Aeronautics and Space Administration made a big light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation device, and decided to call it the NASER instead of NASALASER.
happens
I can never find that program...
does anyone have the repo? I can't find it
Inquiring minds must know
KDE FTW.