Naming things matters and if FireFox had been called WebLibre or LibreBrowser it would have been far less appealing.
There’s just something lame about it and it’s too many syllables, same deal with XLibre.
It's even more lame when you're French.
Joke aside, I agree with you, the "libre" suffix/prefix carries some undertones of "it's going to be old and ugly but open source".
Really, office suites are kind of a late-90’s concept anyway, so having UI that looks weird by modern standards is appropriate probably.
is this opinion based on recent experiences of the libreoffice suite?
I've given up on it, and just use a list of turns and distances, because that way I miss the turns far less often.
Obviously designers can destroy products too, but we got much bigger problems than that in 2025. Most of the garbage today come from business decisions and technical fads.
If all that changed was that everything ran slower and took more battery power and increased the liklihood of closing when backgrounded, that's all I would be complaining about, but what I'm conplaining about here is that updates lead to reduced feature sets, buttons and links that are impossible to differentiate from inactive elements, and icons that vaguely hint at a skuemorphic past, but look more like hamburgers, kebabs, and petifores than what they're actually supposed to respresent.
What's the point of not using words on the buttons that open menus, when the menu's contents are entirely words?
Wait, I take that back, please don't make menus that consist entirely of abstract shapes and squiggles. (https://f-droid.org/repo/org.woheller69.browser/en-US/phoneS...)
> What's the point of not using words on the buttons that open menus, when the menu's contents are entirely words?
The truth is that real estate became incredibly constrained with mobile, and hover also disappeared. Imo the hamburgers and triple dots are close to how good you can get on mobile. There's little point in adding the word "menu" or "options". Basically any text you add on mobile would take full screen width to be safe in all languages. And thats pretty much what open menus look like - they take over the whole screen.
Due to mobile being the primary target, a lot of devs reuse those GUIs for much bigger screens, which is unfortunate.
Don't mind the "Libre" too much tbh, because I use some quality products that use it ... but yes, it's only a matter of time before marketing nerds ruin an already unappealing term
We may agree with RMS that we should be free to own our computers and run whatever we want on them. But he says that commercial software should not exist. That's clearly insane, which makes it easy to dismiss everything he says as insane, even if a lot of it isn't.
Similarly, the man himself is extremely weird and creepy. It's easy to dismiss him on those grounds too even if they don't directly relate to tech things.
What we definitely need is more normal people with normal view that support normal software freedoms without going to crazy extremes.
For example, I have no problem pronouncing "ender" because it has no elements that have unambiguous pronunciation. I also have no problem pronouncing "centre", because it's a well known word with well known pronunciation. But libre is not an existing English word, and "-bre" does not have an unambiguous pronunciation heuristics, so it's unclear how it is intended to be pronounced.
Not an issue in Spanish because it is (apparently) a word in Spanish.
Another example of a bad naming is Forgejo. Terrible. I'm sure it has very clear pronunciation if you speak Esperanto.
anyway, to enjoy lucha libre you have to accept it's like going to the circus (and drunk).
don't expect it to be a fight. which is the one i don't get instead. you have to be really deranged to enjoy box or mma
I still wonder what would have happened if they instead settled to keep the acronym in return for giving massive PR to the World Wildlife folks. As in like, having positive pro-ecological messages and characters in perpetuity. We could all be watching the World Wrestling Foundation to see the title match between (insert name of actual wrestler here) and a wrestler named The Tree Sloth or something...
I don't go out of my way to watch them, but if a friend wants to invite me over to watch a match, I wont be as bored as if it was sportball.