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

submitted 1 day ago by TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to c/linux@sh.itjust.works

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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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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The GIMP has suffered from this for a long time. Lots of calls to change the name just go ignored. It's genuinely hard to recommend it to people as a Photoshop alternative just because of that alone.

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Funny, I don't even use The GIMP, and I think of it as "The GNU Image Manipulation Program" before I think of the BDSM meaning (or the handicap slur).

I'm weird. And probably the exception.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

To be honest, I think you're in the majority. Non-native speakers will know it almost exclusively as the image manipulation program.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Handicap slur?

[–] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As in a “gimp leg”. Another old term in the same vein would be “lame”. But then those terms could be used to describe a person as a whole, becoming the slur.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago

Ooh. I don't think I've encountered the term used like that before.