Programmer Humor

As a former Windows user, it still is taking a long time to wrap my head around all this new terminology, functions, and systems.

This doesn't help. XD

I remember a time when almost every category of tool had something named "Yet Another [Thing]" because there were already so many options to choose from when they decided to make their own.

Never thought about it and I'm gonna go back to not thinking about it

gnuimptklibobject

And this really exposes a major challenge with FOSS.

Names have meaning - it's why Office is called Office.

This gnu naming isn't much of an issue, because this is stuff only technical folks handle. But if we want end-users to embrace things, we need meaningful names - meaningful to them.

Whenever I tell my friends or family to install Jellyfin so they can access my media, the look on their face says it all.

MediaMonkey - alright, I get it (yea, not FOSS)

Plex? OK, if someone then says "think MultiPlex Theaters", you get it. (Also not FOSS)

Jellyfin? What is that? Jam on a sharkfin?

These work really well:

Resilio SYNC (Yeah, not FOSS, but the name makes sense)

SyncThing (FOSS)

FolderSync (not FOSS)

Notice a trend here?

I have a printed spreadsheet for all the software I use - if I haven't touched a service for a couple months, I'll forget the meaningless name.

Also glibc

I thought it was called gnome because little gnomes go into your computer to draw the windows

You've been gnomed

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Not to be confused with glibc. Where the g does actually stand for gnu.