Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes:
> Hullo! > > Now I personally think ‘Guix’ looks and sounds good (not fine), and > our logo is positively stunning, and damn professional too. If that > makes me biased, so be it ;-) > > mikadoZero wrote: >> I also wanted to know what people think about the "geeks" >> pronunciation and how it may impact adoption of Guix as it continues >> to grow long term. Maybe someday becoming as popular as Debian, >> macOS or Windows are today (wishful thinking). For example what if >> Linux kernel had actually been called Freax. […] Would it have >> negatively impacted adoption of the kernel. > > I really don't think so. ‘Linux’ is the fellow's name with an X on > the end. It's as much of a anti-marketing joke as ‘Freax’ was (or GNU > or Guix for that matter). The only reason it seems more familiar is > because, well, it is. > > And (honest question): do we even care? Such a stupid reason to shoot > yourself in the foot with an inferior package manager. > >> Yes Freax and "geeks" > > [and “Linux”] > >> are fun. On the other hand branding is important. > > You wrote this as a contradiction but I don't see one. > > The world's most valuable and evil company was once called ‘Google’. > Koooky! Guix is different from Linux or Google because pronouncing it as "geeks" gives it a negative connotation and sentiment. See below. > >> Just to make my bias clear. I am not a fan of pronouncing Guix >> "geeks" and find myself thinking of deliberately mispronouncing >> Guix as "gwixs" or spelling out the letters G U I X when talking >> to people about Guix. > > That's really unfortunate. > > Kind regards, > > T G-R > > GUIX® is a trademark of Express Logic, Inc. All other brands or > product names are the property of their respective holders. In my initial message I should have explained why I am not a fan of Guix pronounced "geeks". It is because the pronunciation is the same as the plural of the word geek. The word geek has an ambiguous definition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek When Guix is pronounced "geeks" there are negative connotation. The current participants in the Guix community have a self selection bias by using alpha or beta software. This could shows itself through a focus on the positive definition of geek. However I am alone in perceiving the negative connotations and sentiment of the word geek. The vaderSentiment project on GitHub has sentiment scores for words which you can see in it's vader_lexicon.txt. Both geeks and geek have negative sentiment.