Love the name, easy and tells it all. Also it is searchable because it's uniq'ish 😊 Wish everything would support fwupd, like I love my 8bitdo controllers - but sadly they don't support update through fwupd.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Can we please give software actual names and not just a mess of freaking letters? Orhfu 2.0 is out everybody! Aren't you excited!??

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I agree to an extent, but names are hard. I was able to sort of guess what fwupd does without having to read more into it. If it was named "Firmware Updater" I would immediately start asking questions. "Which company made this to update their firmware? Is it safe? Is it a virus?". The name "fwupd" indicates to me that it's more of a universal tool (I could be wrong, as I haven't looked into it) made by the open source community.

I think a solid solution would be for mainstream distrobutions (Linux Mint, Ubuntu, etc.) to maybe have a default wrapper for stuff like this. They could call it whatever they like ("Hardware Updater" or whatever), but it'll use fwupd for the heavy lifting. Win win.

[–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Gnome have a gui frontend to fwupd which is "Firmware". Less stupid name than their app store "Software".

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's literally what you type in terminal to use it