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  • Mullvad tries to achieve anonimity by making your browser setup as un-unique as possible, making it hard for anything trying to track you to dinstinguish you from any other Mullvad browser user. Extensions can break that protection because now you CAN be distinguished from users not using those extensions.





  • I feel like at least for central navigation elements like single word buttons, forms like “benutzys” are not so suitable. Because there will already be a usability trade-offs in using less established terms. People will understand a bit less clearly what is going on and how to navigate things. So things like “Nutzende” which can still be derived from the more commonly used gendered terms by using the regular rules of language will be much more legible and provide less of a riddle than a term like “nutzy” which basically invents new grammar. (in general I do actually like the “invent new grammar” approach to gender neutral language because I think it’s the most thorough and elegant approach overall. But it can also be a bit much/hard to comprehend if you’re not familiar).








  • fr0g@piefed.socialtoLinux@lemmy.mlSUSE Requests openSUSE to Rebrand
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    1 year ago

    And you really think, people who are willing and able to buy enterprise support for their Linux distro get confused by the naming?

    No, I don’t think that. I *know* that because I’m active in the community.

    OpenSuse is essentially free marketing for SUSE, nobody would know them otherwise.

    That is absolute nonsense. SUSE mostly serves large enterprise customers. That’s an entirely different demographic from people who care about Desktop Linux or setting up a home server.

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    its market share is relatively small compared to Red Hat or Canonical.

    I’m pretty sure SUSE is bigger than Canonical.

    Editedit: According to wikipedia SUSE’s revenue is about twice as high as Canonical’s


  • No, there are good reasons for it. A lot of people get confused between SUSE and openSUSE offerings. Often SUSE customers show up in openSUSE places, because they believe that it’s a place they can get official support. And I’m sure a lot of potential customers might get confused in the same way too.
    On the flip side there are also a lot of openSUSE (adjacent) users who think SUSE is (secretly or not) making openSUSE development decisions or think they can dand SUSE to do that and that.

    So there are some good reasons to consider a rebranding, but also some speaking against it, like the less of recognition it might entail.