• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Good that these finally have a unified name now, rather than people just being expected to know that Fedora + [obscure mineral you probably haven’t heard of] means immutable, plus having no idea of what mineral corresponds to what DE.

    Silverblue and Kinoite are cool names, but really they should be renamed to Fedora Gnome (or Workstation, to line up with their standard desktop naming) Atomic, and Fedora Plasma Atomic, like they’ve done with Onyx >> Budgie Atomic

    I understand why they wouldn’t want to suddenly change the branding of existing projects though.

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      10 months ago

      I understand why they wouldn’t want to suddenly change the branding of existing projects though.

      I’m not sure if I agree, I feel like the long term damage of keeping the names is greater than changing them now to Fedora Plasma Atomic (Formerly Kinoite) / Fedora Atomic Workstation (Formerly Silverblue). Leaving them as is, is just going to create more confusion in the future to new users who won’t immediately understand why the naming convention is different for the other spins and will create more confusion for documentation / support threads online.