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Just watched the first episode of Mr. Robot after a friend recommended it to me. I like it so far. Something that caught me completely off guard was the mention of Linux, Gnome, and KDE all by name in the first episode! This is by far the most technical terminology I've heard in a TV show. What was even funnier was the pronunciation of Gnome without the hard G, I assume this was done to appeal to the general population who has never heard of Gnome and how it's supposed to be pronounced.
@natanielf I've been using #gnome since it was first created and I refuse to use the hard G the same way I refuse not to with GIF. 'Official' #pronunciations are ridiculous when they make communication harder with the general public. See also LaTeX and MATE (which can put an accent on the E if they want it pronounced as in Spanish).
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/a1z3uf/how_do_you_say_gnome/
@mikebabcock @natanielf there’s no official pronunciation, but 11 years ago the official GNOME YouTube channel published videos pronouncing it with a silent G, and several people in the Foundation do as well. Guh-nome is effectively a historical artifact at this point.
Probably highly unpopular along with inaccurate, but I've always thought it should be pronounced like "genome" (as the biology/genetics field noun),
since that makes more sense with things like gEdit and gParted and so forth.
Granted GNOME is nowhere near as carried away as KDE where literally everything must start with a K (and leave you clueless as to what it is haha)
But I thought that would be pretty clever.
You may now commence the chastisements 