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Twitter post by Daniel Feldman (@d_feldman): Linux is the only major operating system to support diagonal mode (credit [Twitter] @xssfox). Image shows an untrawide monitor rotated about 45 degrees, with a horizontal IDE window taking up a bottom triangle. A web browser and settings menu above it are organized creating a window shape almost like a stepped pyramid.

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  • bane_killgrind@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2025·
    11 months ago

    The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority.

    This ain’t a bdsm club, so this is a bad argument.

    • U de Recife@literature.cafe
      275·
      11 months ago

      Maybe you’ll like it more under this new guise: I named my cat Goofyball. But since Linnaeus named the species Felis catus, you remind me that my cat’s name should ackchyually be Felis catus/Goofyball. To which I reply, very appropriately, ‘it’s MY cat’. So Goofyball it is.

      Understand now the authority argument? Authority in the sense of authorial, having an author.

      • Shareni
        7·
        11 months ago

        Linus didn’t choose Linux because he thought it sounded too self-centred.

        • U de Recife@literature.cafe
          3·
          11 months ago

          Sorry if I mistake your intention. If that’s the case, it’s just me making a wrong guess.

          You’re probably misreading this.

          I authored THE NAME. If you prefer, I’m the name-giver, the author in this sense.

          Linus is the namer and the creator of that kernel.

          As creator he is by right allowed to name his creation whatever he likes. Just like me, as the cat ‘entity creator as a pet’ am allowed to name it whatever I like.

          No outsiders input required. You get now what I mean by author?

          Whatever your reply may be, let me thank you already for engaging. It’s nice to be pressured to explain something in simpler, more accessible terms.