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Comment by beervirus | Hacker News Reader

Picking nits is fine, but this seems like an irrelevant nit. Like I at least get the argument about calling Linux GNU/Linux, even if I don’t care… but this one, I’m not sure why anyone would care.

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The author of the linked article didn’t call it by the wrong name in the title. Changing the title to this incorrect name may mislead people into thinking that the person who wrote the linked content is incompetent, unqualified, or foolish.

Check here: http://pupngo.dk/xwinflpy/Hacklin.htm

Searches won't work properly because of people who don't care about correctness. That's the primary reason why some of us care.

That ship has sailed.

Not only sailed but probably decommissioned or at the bottom of the ocean by now.

They're not U-Boats!!! It's the U Boat System.

Both Google and Bing are smart enough to associate "X-Windows" with "X Window System"

I for myself get annoyed every time I see this misspell. The name is X Window. Even microserfs can learn it.

1. Thank you for getting annoyed every time.

2. The name is not "X Window".

Citation: See the June 1988 "XNextEvent" newsletter, The Official Newsletter of XUG, the X User’s Group, "Things That Happen When You Say ‘X Windows’", for the definitive list of its official names, and the dire consequences of getting it wrong:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28522534

>microserfs

Cringing intensifies.

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