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  • GameWiz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I like Linux, I hate the app names. It’s confusing as hell, especially if you are looking for some app that functions the way you imagine, then they name something weird like Nautilus instead of file explorer lmao.

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      1 year ago

      For some reason people get all ways extra fabulous when they make open source Software and need a fancy name instead of a great descriptive one…

      Or they could name it atleast nautilus the file explorer or something.

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        1 year ago

        It’s actually called “GNOME Files” nowadays. And it’s had the moniker “File Manager” for ages in the desktop entries for most distros, even if the official name was “Nautilus”.

        I actually feel the other way around… if they had just called it “File Explorer” it’d come off as if they are getting “extra fabulous”, because it implies the other file explorers are not really THE “File Explorer”.

        Imagine if when Google launched Chrome they had decided to name it “Web Browser” instead of “Google Chrome”.

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        1 year ago

        For me personally, having 5-10 of everything is good. I find what I like the best and you find what you like best. It can make extra work, but if you subtract out all the time I’d spend fighting the windows UI or looking at ads and “recommended content”, I think we may actually come out on the better end of things.

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      1 year ago

      I believe both Xfce and Cinnamon have a setting for generic app names: i.e. “Firefox” becomes “Web Browser” & “Nautilus” becomes “File Manager”. I always thought this feature was great.