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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I feel like Y should be the successor to X.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Whyland doesn't sound as good though.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you mean like X, Why?, Z

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You made me check my zipper.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

file-roller?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No, zypper. Package manager.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like this one that never took off? https://www.y-windows.org/

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

they do NOT get the joke!!!1!!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The X window system is actually the successor to the W window system.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

There actually was a short-lived attempt to create a Y window system as a successor to X (before Wayland).

Funnily enough the website is still live, despite no progress in almost 20 years: y-windows.org

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

millenial.com is just a whatsapp call away!