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Ah yes, the old “I accidentally stepped on a fly, might as well exterminate the whole biosphere” defense

Not everyone can afford a full wit. Maybe consider that not everyone has your priviledges

Who said this, and where? Are you sure you’re not throwing together the bcachefs stuff with this Rust topic?

III. if you spend money on a Ubisoft game, you get what you fucking deserve.

Aber Flugzeuge schon, oder wie? 🤨

Dann schließt du allerdings z. B. Satelliten aus.

Es ist eine Kunst, sagt er, oder vielmehr ein Trick zu fliegen. Der Trick besteht darin, dass man lernt, wie man sich auf den Boden schmeißt, aber daneben.

Okay, but why do you tell me that I’m wrong and keep going on about unrelated points? I don’t care if the user-facing name is different from the binary name. I have no position on the topic.

I corrected a wrong statement (who is responsible for the .desktop file of an application). You tried to counter-correct me, but did so on an unrelated point (who displays the application name? I’m still not sure). Positions on whether .desktop files defining separate names is good aren’t relevant.

Your Mint/Xed example doesn’t show what you think it does. Mint doesn’t just ship with .desktop entries for a bunch of applications, they are still managed by the respective developers and part of the packages themselves. Mint is also the developer of Xed, so the repository is in their organization, but the .desktop file is still part of the package. If you install Xed on any other distribution, you’ll still get the same .desktop entry, because it’s part of the package.

That is all I’ve been talking about. I’m not sure how your reply relates to that, but it would help me if you tell me what you’re arguing against.

No, your Desktop Environment doesn’t have a huge list of package names to app names. It has a list for all your installed packages, but the list entries are part of the packages.

If your system doesn’t have gnome-system-monitor installed, you won’t have the corresponding .desktop file, because it’s part of the package. It would be incredibly wasteful and unnecessarily complex for your system to get shipped out with .desktop files for all possible applications.

Ich lasse mir doch nicht vom mathematischen Establishment vorschreiben, welche arithmetischen Umformungen ich durchführen darf!