[spopejoy]

Hmm mac os does this too (and tbh explaining to noobs that files are in the "Finder" gets perplexed stares, same with "Preview" for viewing pdfs?!?) "Explorer" isn't much better ...

However I can at least remember "Finder", "Preview" whereas I can never remember "eog" and have to look in old shell scripts to find out. Worst name ever with no way to discover it.

[DivineBicycle]

I can't remember what Eye of Gnome is called in the shell, but it's probably something like Photo Viewer. I agree which you that Mac OS and Windows do this as well, but Windows at least calls it File Explorer, instead of just Explorer, at least on the graphical side. I think that Gnome and maybe also Pantheon do this best, with descriptive names that help new users, with code names that are used in the terminal, I suppose to differentiate between maybe Dolphin and Nautilus if someone has both installed.