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I was honestly trying to think of how an X11 bug could affect images and links in tweets until I opened the link and remembered that rebranding exercise.

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Yeah, I find "X11", while less ambiguous, reminds me too much of macOS users because that's how it's usually referred to as there, as if it's foreign thing.

On Linux, saying "X11" is like calling it by its full first name, and since we're long-time buddies, we're on a first-name basis and just call it by its short nickname X. At a formal dress party, we'll call it the X Window System, and if we were introducing it to royalty, we'd say X Window System, Protocol 11, Revision 6.

“The X.Org Foundation requests that the following names be used when referring to this software:

               X
        X Window System
          X Version 11
  X Window System, Version 11
              X11

”

— <https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/man/man7/X.7.xhtml>

As a Linux user, I still call it X11, and it's in `/etc` as `/etc/X11`, so I don't think I'm that far wrong.

The part that got me was “X CEO Linda Yaccarino” which made me think she had a very short tenure.

Apparently I read the sounds, not the words.

What do you call a group of managers that used to work at Twitter?

XXXX

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