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Finally there's a general name for immutable Fedora. Creating a new name for each desktop variant is terrible because it's bot obvious what desktop it's actually using. Fedora Sway/Budgie Atomic is clear and concise. Sadly we're still stuck with Silverblue and Kinoite (which are good names, just not consistent).
Aren't they had different names? I guess Silverblue and Kinoite being older are not that easy to change, all documentation and even search results are about old names, would do great mess?
Yes, they're quite established and I believe there're quite a few contributors who do like those names. At the time they were branded Atomic Workstation the user base was quite small, as it was more of an experimental release (compared to systems running atomic flawlessly for years now).