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[-] mech@feddit.org 78 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is only true for 3rd party software on Windows.
All native Microsoft software is called Copilot.

My favorite Linux software name is "Kröhnkite", a script to add tiling WM functionality to KDE Plasma.
The dev named it after Kröhnkite because it starts with a K and looks nice.
My second favorite is RebeccaBlackOS. A Linux distro that has nothing to do with Rebecca Black, not even artwork. The dev just called it that cause he's a fan of hers.

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 29 points 5 months ago

My music recommendation algorithm recommended me Rebecca Black the other day.

Honestly, wasn’t bad, and much respect to her for getting so much shit as a 14 year old and still sticking with the thing she liked doing. I know she came across as a spoiled silver spooned rich kid so we all made fun of her, but she’s got real spine.

Anyways. There’s also an Among Us OS called AmogOS

[-] javasux@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Highly recommend her Last Meals episode, she seems like a genuinely good person

https://youtu.be/LhiJP_dO0cs

[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I knew rich kids back in the day and I'm like. Bad how your parents got money but thank God for your psyche that all those things your parents bought and did for you as a teen didn't make it to the internet.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 46 points 5 months ago

(This is a real picture)

[-] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 5 months ago

Fuck, I missed that release. Was it dank?

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

It got you higher than a sequoia (I looked it up, it was jokingly proposed as a name for what became 10.10 Yosemite)

[-] blitzen@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

If you didn't know, Weed is a city in California, and macOS versions are named after California place names.

[-] riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 5 months ago

Yeah because ALL KDE APPS START WITH K!!

[-] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 6 points 5 months ago

i hate that the notepad app is called kate and the icon does not resemble notepad in any way. also it does too much, with default settings it gets in my way. fuck you kate! just be a fucking notepad!

[-] insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Not sure if that's bait. Kate is more editor-y (code collapse, LSP server capability, compile commands, GIT stuff), the notepad only (that Kate is based on, if you have Kate you have both) is KWrite and it does have a white-square-with-lines-on-it icon.

Funnily enough (despite using Kate as my editor) I use Featherpad for simple text (and that has a better icon than KWrite) and I also don't even use KDE, but this is the least of my Linux problems right now.

[-] TuxMark5@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

You may want to use kwrite if kate is too much.

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[-] 123@programming.dev 12 points 5 months ago

Calc -> opens libre office spreadsheets because the calculator is kalc or kcalc or some dumb shit

Fffffffuuuuuuuuuu

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[-] flubba86@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

You're using the wrong app. The notepad-like editor for KDE is called KWrite, the icon is exactly as you'd expect it. Kate is an advanced plugin-based editor with IDE-like features.

[-] CannedCairn@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

I love Kate and used it as my primary coding editor for like a decade.

[-] smh@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 months ago

Are you also a nano fan? (best command line editor ever, from the POV of tech support walking a Linux n00b through editing config files. Also can do syntax highlighting if if set it up properly.)

[-] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I also love Kate, but I call her Katie.

[-] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 5 points 5 months ago

KWrite exists, it is a stripped down release of Kate, even built from the same source.

[-] LordPassionFruit@lemmy.ca 29 points 5 months ago

Looks like it might be a Windows command line tool this time

[-] Gork@sopuli.xyz 23 points 5 months ago

KDE should never form a clan though.

[-] testaccount789@sh.itjust.works 24 points 5 months ago

KDE Kommunity Klan

[-] jeffep@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

https://clan.lol/docs/25.11

Edit: oh, took me a second. I just thought you should know there is a tool called clan already and you can use it to run kde on all your machines

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 5 months ago

Alternatively something with recursion :D

[-] heliotrope@retrofed.com 22 points 5 months ago

Examples:

  • 🍎 Bonjour
  • 🍎 QuickTime
  • 🪟 Windows Embedded POSReady 2009
  • 🪟 Internet Explorer 6
  • 🐧 BitchX (IRC client)
  • 🐧 Gigolo (remote FS manager)
[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 11 points 5 months ago

Does GIMP count?

[-] flubba86@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

Yes it definitely counts.

[-] insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If you have any doubt, look up the gimp 2.7.2 splash screen (hint: cage tool, ~~I don't know~~ what feature the goat* lady represents though).

* Quote:

the goat is a reference to GEGL, a technology for doing non-destructive editing, that was slowly being integrated with gimp around this time (GEGL's unofficial mascot is a 5-legged goat, from the alternative acronym definition "Genetically Engineered Goat, Large.")

[-] percent@infosec.pub 6 points 5 months ago

Wow, I haven't heard of BitchX in many years! Decades, I think. Thanks for bringing up some old memories 🙂

[-] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

Honestly my favorite software name for any program ever is 'obtainium'

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[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 months ago

And then the next version on Windows is Internet Manager Cloud Freedom Suite (CFS), and it costs $199/month.

[-] SirActionSack@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

~~Internet Manager Cloud Freedom Suite~~

Copilot

[-] Phunter@lemmy.zip 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'd like to propose "Clickorice" be picked up as an OS/app name please.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

And then make it game where you just click falling pieces of rice.

... What, did you think it was something else?

[-] Headofthebored@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Dear God. A game a chicken could beat. Does it have interesting backgrounds or a solid soundtrack at least? Why am I terrorizing myself thinking about this? It's complete nonsense trash, yet, you know people absolutely would play that. I don't know why. Maybe dementia.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago

I mean its basically just a digital version of popping bubble wrap.

Sure, give it a soundtrack, flashy visuals, achievements, ... why not?

The rice could just... all spawn in at once, random locations, then you're timed... or maybe it keeps spawning in, some kind of function of how much rice is onscreen.

Maybe it has physics, maybe its top down, maybe its side on.

... Maybe there are other chickens and its hungry hungry hippos.

[-] 5too@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Some levels tilt with the phone, some levels are under water...

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It would actually be extremely funny to make certain grains of rice or certain levels have the rice respond to your phone gyros, where normally this does not happen.

Oh hey why not:

Some rice jumps when you blink.

Other rice jumps when a loud noise happens.

Fuck it:

If you sing the equivalent of a 12 note OoT song, the rice does something game mechanically useful.

[-] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

KTrue

[-] Uri@infosec.pub 5 points 5 months ago

Like the first time I mentioned XMPP to a friend 🙂

[-] Lehmuusa@nord.pub 4 points 5 months ago

And all of these refer to variations of one and the same part of the human body.

[-] RAFAELRAMIREZ@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Linux names really just sound like someone mashed the keyboard and said yeah, that’s the one 😭

[-] Slashme@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

More likely to be called "Professional" than "Extreme" at Microsoft, but, yeah, spot on.

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