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What are you most excited when it comes to linux in 2024? (lemm.ee)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by SherlockHawk@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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For me it must be kde plasma 6 and the wayland driver for wine.

Edit: I made the question gendered by using the word guys. I've fixed my mistake.

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[–] odium@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Why are you bringing gender into something that doesn't need any gendering?

[–] voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's in the title.

[–] odium@programming.dev 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I don't consider guys to be a gendered word. I feel like guys has been used to refer to both genders for decades at this point.

You guys is synonymous with y'all

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (3 children)

They didn’t say “you guys” which I agree is reasonably genderless. They said “guys.” Which is a typo, and I was making a joke about the typo.

[–] SherlockHawk@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, it wasn't my intention to make the question gendered.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

I know. I’m just teasing.

[–] odium@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago

Ah, that's fair. My brain autofilled a "you" in there.

[–] Montagge@kbin.social -1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I wonder why the male form of a pair of words would be considered to be usable for everyone

[–] oo1@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Words literally change their meaning over time and social context.

I think "guy" used to mean just "a rope" until some fellow named Guy tried to blow up some nobs in London.

I think both "guy (rope/guideline)" and the name "Guy (Guido)" might origiate from the same basic word "guide" .

I don't think it's always clear why changes happen, people just use it differently and if a new usage spreads widely and becomes common, then the new usage may get added into some dictionaries.

I quite like "RobWords" on youtube - 'tho I'm not sure if he has covered this one specficaly.

[–] Montagge@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Maybe we shouldn't do that when it's rooted in sexism

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

“Hey, you guuuyyyyssss”

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

They didn’t read anything.

[–] acastcandream@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I mean in their defense…the title is gendered lol

Jokes aside they’re clearly poking fun at the title. Go read it out loud you probably missed the mistake.