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/e/ is easily, EASILY the worst name for a product I have ever seen. I don't know how to pronounce it, I can't Google it, I can't make a guess what it's domain might be. Just awful in every possible way.

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Also it might cause confusion with https://www.enlightenment.org/

Also it might cause confusion with https://boards.4chan.org/e/ (NSFW)

Or elementeryOS which is commonly referred to as eOS

If Google would not ignore special characters, it would be the easiest to find... ie: search for "/e/" ... also, alphabet is easy to find because they give themselves priority [0]....

0. https://i.imgur.com/iuxMVBj.png

I think I read somehwere that they chose this name as their "beta" version since it's not easily googleable. As soon as they gain more traction, they will rebrand.

They started with eelo, but then had to change:

> Eelo was subsequently renamed to /e/ in July 2018 due to a conflict with the "eelloo" trademark, which was owned by human resources company Meurs HRM B.V.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//e/_(operating_system)

PS. I agree on it being the worst name possible.

in the AMA he gives notice of things to come regarding the name. Like - the operating system keeping /e/ intermittingly, but choosing an overall easier to communicate project name.

That's only until it becomes ubiquitous: C programming language.

You had to put "C programming language" because C is an insufficient identifier, despite its ubiquity.

Go is another one that seemed like a bad choice--at least "e" isn't an English word.

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