[jacquesm]

> Historically the Certbot software was named "letsencrypt" which certainly didn't make this easier to understand.

And to this day strongly promoted (recommended first option) right from the letsencrypt.org starter page:

https://letsencrypt.org/getting-started/

[remram]

That doesn't seem to be the case:

> Let’s Encrypt is a CA.

> We recommend that most people with shell access use the Certbot ACME client.

[jacquesm]

I don't understand you. You say it doesn't seem to be the case and then quote the exact part that proves that it does.

[ylyn]

I (native English) first interpreted your comment as saying that "letsencrypt" is promoted. The other person probably read it the same way.

[ryandrake]

Huge stumbling block and source of confusion for me. During the steep learning curve setting it up, I'd often search online for help/tutorials and they'd all reference "certbot" which I couldn't find anywhere on my system. As a newbie, I frequently said "WTF is this certbot thing, I'm using letsencrypt!" Wasn't clear at all. At some point during my system updates, /usr/bin/letsencrypt became a symbolic link to /usr/bin/certbot and it became obvious.

[marcan_42]

Sounds like you were running a distro that didn't keep its packages updated. By the time everyone was calling it 'certbot', well, it was called certbot.