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Okay, I'm just going to reply to this one really quick before sleeping, my intention was for this to be the short version of Plutonium-239 so it matches better with the logo. I kind of hope for this to be colloquially refered to as just Plutonium, but that itself as a name sounded boring. You are right to point it out and I agree, it was a placeholder at first however that name eventually grew on me too much and the domain is already purchased haha
Aha, I get it. And I like that its kinda nerdy. I dont think majority of the people will get it though. Just Plutonium would be fine, sounds actually real good and I think searching for plutonium os should be distinct enough (given the fact plutonium is not an element of everyday life). However if you still insist on the shorthand, what I saw people do, have a paragraph explaining what the shortcut means and how to call the os. Something like "the p-239 stands for plutonium and that is what we call the os - Plutonium" or variant of that. Maybe have it on the homepage even as a part of some baner or simly as second or third element under header. And it can also link to the full story (that it was a codename at first..)
Might I suggest Hesperium (earlier alternate name recommended by Fermi) or Plutium (a name Seaborg considered before deciding plutonium sounded better)?
Name could be Plutium, domain could be pu-239? @yxc999@lemmy.ml
Hmm, in my head I'm pretty set on Plutonium already, but I will take your advice and make the written out name more prominently visible so people will hopefully develop the habit of refering to it as "Plutonium". If I should decide to have multiple spins on it, I'll remember that Hesperium and such are cool alternate names, thank you for the ideas!
Hard to google though...
My first thought when I saw your domain was not plutonium-239, it was P U 239, your website doesn’t reference plutonium until 8-9 paragraphs in.
Oh shit, you are right, I had it in my head to include the written out name in the first paragraph but kinda just forgot about it, thank you for pointing it out!!
English speakers will think your distro stinks based on that name.