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My hot take on the official pronunciation of GNOME
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I use KDE because I never want to have to worry about how to pronounce it. There is no ambiguity with KDE, it's just K D E
It's pronounced kiddy.
Just KDEing..
My wife works at a bakery that uses an ordering system called FreshKDS (kitchen display system in case you’re wondering). She always calls it fresh kids.
I don't see that backfiring for someone who isn't in the know.
Mine was studying global information stuff in school. Mainly used a software called "ArcGIS."
I called it "Arc-jiss." Which she laugh-hated because it sounds like "Arc-jizz." XD
We pronounce it Katie.
No, it's pronounced "Katie!" /s
But seriously, it almost is pronounced "Katie."
Guess I’ll pronounce it Kh Duh from now on!
I am still thoroughly confused whether I should call it KDE or Plasma or Plasma Desktop. Like, what is the difference?
KDE is the author, Plasma is the application. There is ambiguity since they don't make more than one desktop environment - so all are good.
But also the desktop environment used to be called KDE until 2009 (Kool Desktop Environment)
But there's no ambiguity in how to pronounce any of it
And it isn't a tablet ui.
Now pronounce Qt.
Officially Cute, but for me it will always be cutie
Well, that's easy. That must be "Kut", which, not surprisingly means cunt in Dutch.
I use, and love, KDE, but this is not one of the reasons I use it... What