Talk:Gnome (disambiguation)

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gnomes are also featured in books. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.242.103.56 (talk • contribs) 22 May 2009

Many of the items currently mentioned on this disambiguation page do not belong here. The primary meaning of "gnome" is the small humanoid creature from folklore and fantasy fiction, and specific exemplars of this core meaning from literature, comics, games, and so forth should not be presented as distinct meanings. Exemplars that are particularly notable should be merged with the Gnome article (or, for all I care, on some sort of list). Less notable exemplars should not be listed at all. This disambiguation page should focus on meanings that are not merely exemplars of the core meaning. 125.168.127.32 (talk) 02:53, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Modified description for GNOME desktop environment

I changed "GNU/Linux" to "Linux". Please hear out my reasoning for this:

Wikipedia refers to GNU/Linux as simply Linux. The article on Linux is about the operating system, and the actual Linux kernel is given its own separate article at Linux kernel. GNU/Linux redirects to Linux.
GNOME works on other distributions of Linux that don't have a GNU userland. Alpine Linux, for example, has support for GNOME.

If you disagree with my reasoning, please revert my edit and let me know why by replying to this. I'll be watching this page. Sebastian^{Talk | Contrib.} - 21:53, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It should really just say "a desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems", to reflect what the article says (trimming out the open source bit, which isn't at all needed for disambiguation). -- Fyrael (talk) 13:39, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I agree; thanks for spotting that. I'll update it. Sebastian^{Talk | Contrib.} - 23:47, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]