[mdoms]

/e/ is easily, EASILY the worst name for a product I have ever seen. I don't know how to pronounce it, I can't Google it, I can't make a guess what it's domain might be. Just awful in every possible way.

[raverbashing]

Also it might cause confusion with https://www.enlightenment.org/

[flyingfences]

Also it might cause confusion with https://boards.4chan.org/e/ (NSFW)

[SirLotsaLocks]

Or elementeryOS which is commonly referred to as eOS

[Black101]

If Google would not ignore special characters, it would be the easiest to find... ie: search for "/e/" ... also, alphabet is easy to find because they give themselves priority [0]....

0. https://i.imgur.com/iuxMVBj.png

[burundi_coffee]

I think I read somehwere that they chose this name as their "beta" version since it's not easily googleable. As soon as they gain more traction, they will rebrand.

[rapnie]

They started with eelo, but then had to change:

> Eelo was subsequently renamed to /e/ in July 2018 due to a conflict with the "eelloo" trademark, which was owned by human resources company Meurs HRM B.V.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//e/_(operating_system)

PS. I agree on it being the worst name possible.

[flas9sd]

in the AMA he gives notice of things to come regarding the name. Like - the operating system keeping /e/ intermittingly, but choosing an overall easier to communicate project name.

[karmakaze]

That's only until it becomes ubiquitous: C programming language.

[nightowl_games]

You had to put "C programming language" because C is an insufficient identifier, despite its ubiquity.

[karmakaze]

Go is another one that seemed like a bad choice--at least "e" isn't an English word.