Re: Guix pronunciation

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <somebody@not-sent-or-endorsed-by.tobias.gr>]

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!

> 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

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