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Has bad branding ever turned you off from software, FOSS or not? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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I'll start: while looking at app theming I came across WallRizz, renamed from WallWiz. I haven't tried it, and looking at it documentation it seems well made, but I cringe at the name and the AI-generated penguin logo. It shares the art style of all the other AI slop, its basically italian brainrot but 2D. WallWiz sounds way better, rizz sounds like it was specially designed for gen alpha (little kids). If there are apps of even similar quality, why would I use this one?

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[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 6 points 5 days ago

Is the logo ai generated? I've had coworkers who could rip out a logo like this in no time from scratch. I'm on my phone (without my readers) so maybe I'm missing something. As far as style goes, I'd just note that every time a new style is "the thing", everyone did things in that style - long before AI.

That said, that looks pretty cool and I'm going to check it out. I don't really give a crap about branding unless its something problematic (like the person mentioning the qanon distro - I won't touch framework anymore, won't touch ruby on rails, Omarchy, etc, but thats less branding and more leadership). Ive seen terrible branding for amazing tools, and amazing branding for terrible tools. As long as they aren't parroting the proud boys or something, its fair game to me.