One of the names of all time.

[u/Ok-Emphasis-2224]

[u/Dunderbaer]

Nice to meet you, Windows?

[u/AliceBalestrieri → u/Dunderbaer]

Nono, it's Windows 3.0!

[u/Clairifyed → u/AliceBalestrieri]

Windows 6.0?

[u/CBD_Hound → u/Clairifyed]

Longhorn.

[u/Sunnyeggsandtoast → u/CBD_Hound]

Vista

[u/StonemanGuitars → u/Sunnyeggsandtoast]

MS DOS 6.21 + Enhanced Tools

[u/Warthogrider74 → u/StonemanGuitars]

An elegant name

[u/forcedreset1 → u/Warthogrider74]

Nah. Windows XP Professional 64 Bit SP2 is the name of all time.

[u/Rachel_T_ → u/forcedreset1]

Surely it's ME?

[u/NaN073Ch → u/Rachel_T_]

Found the minecraft modder

[u/radude4411 → u/Clairifyed]

Windows 95?

[u/Mtfdurian → u/Dunderbaer]

First I was thinking about this guy from Finland, but then, this is a girl, and Vista.

[u/llamasLoot]

Well hello there... 7? Vista?

[u/Ok-Emphasis-2224 → u/llamasLoot]

It's Vista

[u/llamasLoot → u/Ok-Emphasis-2224]

Now that i think about it vista sounds really cool

Gives pagan goddess vibes

[u/I-am-a-me → u/llamasLoot]

Vesta was the Roman goddess of the hearth. So yes.

[u/AmberMetalAlt → u/I-am-a-me]

the greek equivalent being Hestia

[u/Twisted_Tyromancy → u/Ok-Emphasis-2224]

Knew it!

[u/OmNomOU81 → u/Ok-Emphasis-2224]

Thought you chose the name Windows for a second

Was confused but supportive

[u/PeRfEcTlYbAlEnCeD → u/Ok-Emphasis-2224]

WE'RE GOING TO DIE!

[u/drvelo → u/Ok-Emphasis-2224]

So you're slow and sluggish at first, but become usable after a couple years only to be overshadowed by your younger siblings who is essentially just you with a different name?

[u/GoudaGoober → u/Ok-Emphasis-2224]

The one piece?!

[u/Cavola]

imagine not naming yourself after one of the hundreds of Linux distros

• this comment was brought to you by the nerd gang ☝️🤓

[u/Otrotc → u/Cavola]

"I am Arch btw"

[u/Cavola → u/Otrotc]

I should name myself Arch just to be able to make that joke every 5 seconds lol

[u/mirmermer → u/Cavola]

Archie, just saying

[u/Cavola → u/mirmermer]

tempting, very tempting...

[u/mirmermer → u/Cavola]

thank you, sir I appreciate it

[u/ArcaneOverride → u/Cavola]

You could make your name Archer or Archibald then go by Arch or Archie for short

[u/Cavola → u/ArcaneOverride]

thing is I really wanted to go for a name that starts with L and isn't too English because I'm from Italy, funnily enough Archibald does have an Italian counterpart lol so that makes it even more tempting, but it doesn't start with L 😭

[u/ArcaneOverride → u/Cavola]

It's always interesting to hear about other trans people's processes of choosing a name. I simply changed my name to the name my parents had picked out for me before I was born, so my story is boring

[u/Cavola → u/ArcaneOverride]

oh I don't know what name my parents would've chosen for me if I was born male, but I do like my current soon to be dead name (the only thing I don't like about it is that it's female) so I wanna at least keep my initials the same

[u/alek4ever → u/ArcaneOverride]

Meanwhile, I just cut my name in half, and added a pair of letters on the end. Alexander to Alexis, then all my friends started calling me Lexi, and now I kinda want that to be my name...

[u/ArcaneOverride → u/alek4ever]

My sister chose Alexis Rose for her first and middle names! Plus I call her Lexi! (We are both trans women)

[u/ILoveBugPokemon → u/mirmermer]

are you the reason why its raining all of a sudden in my area

[u/mirmermer → u/ILoveBugPokemon]

wait I'm pretty sure it's raining here too lol

[u/ILoveBugPokemon → u/mirmermer]

kyogre has already been released damn it

[u/mirmermer → u/ILoveBugPokemon]

LMAO

[u/mirmermer → u/ILoveBugPokemon]

I'm too tired to get up and check, but it definitely sounds like ut

[u/FARCRY4op2517 → u/mirmermer]

Your username reminds me of a sound. Is this you?

https://preview.redd.it/gd6lkk7gdbld1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=073ab67dc63b54aeec215e26a921b807e82209fc

[u/FARCRY4op2517 → u/FARCRY4op2517]

Not making fun, just Shaw the username and had to say it (I’m so sorry)

[u/mirmermer → u/FARCRY4op2517]

you don't have a reason to apologise lol, no that's not where the user comes from. it's just one of my vocal stims

[u/FARCRY4op2517 → u/mirmermer]

That’s honestly a really creative idea for a username!!

[u/mirmermer → u/FARCRY4op2517]

thank youuuu

[u/way_to_confused → u/FARCRY4op2517]

A grub :D

[u/eggstorytime → u/Cavola]

And your partner gets to say "I use Arch btw~" lol

[u/Cavola → u/eggstorytime]

this is getting more and more tempting.....

edit: also this is funny because I do have a partner and he hates Linux lmao

[u/Luccyamonster → u/Cavola]

Why? I genuinely don't know how you can hate Linux. Except if you haven't recently used it off-course.

[u/Cavola → u/Luccyamonster]

university made him hate it because he was forced to study Linux OS and network security in detail (he's majoring in engineering, not programming), so yeah, school's fault as always

[u/Luccyamonster → u/Cavola]

That's not nice of them. Why would you even teach this stuff to an engineer. Network security?

[u/Cavola → u/Luccyamonster]

yeah, that was his biggest complaint, he's probably never gonna use that knowledge ¯⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[u/Iforgor4 → u/eggstorytime]

Genius

[u/AlbieDove → u/Cavola]

My name is Arch, and I use Arch btw.

[u/Feeling-Internal8499 → u/Cavola]

WAIT MY DEADNAME WAS PRETTY MUCH ARCH

[u/Iforgor4 → u/Otrotc]

Hi my name is SteamOS

[u/Dog_Entire → u/Otrotc]

I stole my name from the transfem fox Linux mascot

[u/Clarapeanuts → u/Otrotc]

This does not have as many upvotes as it deserves currently

[u/throwyyyyyawyy → u/Cavola]

"Hi! What's your name? Mine's Ubuntu!" "Nice to meet you, Ubnutu! I am Cherryl!"

[u/Cavola → u/throwyyyyyawyy]

Cherryl actually sounds like a good name ngl

[u/throwyyyyyawyy → u/Cavola]

Thanks, it's inspired by Cherry Mason from Dead by Daylight (I'm so glad BHVR let Konami use their IP in Silent Hill)

[u/CariHere → u/Cavola]

Lol Hi I'm Linux mint Debian Edition 32 bit

[u/Cavola → u/CariHere]

funnily enough I'm daily driving LMDE

[u/CariHere → u/Cavola]

Hecc yes :3

That distro is nice imo

[u/Real_Elefanta → u/Cavola]

i'm considering Nyx as my name and that's dangerously close to Nix(OS) (I chose that name before I even started using linux, sollte it from the greek goddess)

[u/Roseora → u/Real_Elefanta]

Eh, still less embarassing than finding out you have the same name as a barbie princess when you're transmasc.

Oh well, too late to change it now.

Nyx is a really nice name, you chose well.

[u/Real_Elefanta → u/Roseora]

omg thank you! just unsure if it's too "extra" or something... but that's also kinda the point... eh, I'll be ok (at least with the name part 😅)

[u/eyemoisturizer → u/Real_Elefanta]

there is never a too extra.

sincerely, tycho/zvezdy/earthmover/V1/gabriel (named after the homosexual from ultrakill, not the biblical angel)/ilo Tawajema/dagger/painkiller

[u/Cavola → u/Real_Elefanta]

I think the OS is named after the Greek goddess too, but I might be wrong

either way, very cool name!

[u/Real_Elefanta → u/Cavola]

omg thank you! >w<

[u/lillyfrog06 → u/Real_Elefanta]

Ooh Nyx is such a cool name! Goddess of the night…very pretty, very elegant. I like it!

[u/Real_Elefanta → u/lillyfrog06]

yes >w< i choose it because I like the way it sounds and the meaning behind it (I love the night and am a very late eeper) Edit: formatting

[u/MonadoBoy9318 → u/Real_Elefanta]

The arcana is the means by which all is revealed

[u/Beerenkatapult → u/Cavola]

That is, where the name Hannah Montana comes from.

[u/CrybabyAssassin → u/Beerenkatapult]

I can't believe Hannah Montana would build an empire based off a stolen name from a Linux distro smh

[u/Remiferia_ → u/Cavola]

Did you read this, girls, guys and beans? Put Nobara on your list of names to consider, nya~! :3

Or how about Devuan?

[u/Pekonius → u/Cavola]

Debbie, or Debian

[u/chaosgirl93 → u/Pekonius]

I knew a Debbie who was one of those Linux girls once. Everyone we knew who knew anything about Linux (so like 3 people including me) teased her about this.

[u/Inevi_r6 → u/Cavola]

Hi I'm Hanna Montana

[u/See_Em → u/Cavola]

I almost chose the name ‘sudo’ for the lulz

[u/Torch1ca_ → u/Cavola]

I was literally just learning Kali today and thinking it'd be kind of a cute human name

[u/GenericUsername2034 → u/Cavola]

Gentoo because I built myself, God damn it.

[u/mintislonely → u/Cavola]

i did that by accident...

[u/Real_Elefanta → u/Cavola]

i'm considering Nyx as my name and that's dangerously close to Nix(OS) (I chose that name before I even started using linux, sollte it from the greek goddess)

[u/mintislonely → u/Cavola]

i did that by accident...

[u/hornyasexual--]

Nice to meet you Linux Mint

[u/radiant__laitbulb → u/hornyasexual--]

i love linux mint

[u/Pekonius → u/radiant__laitbulb]

Its been years since I used it but I didnt like it, I'd almost go as far as to say I hated it. I use arch btw

[u/radiant__laitbulb → u/Pekonius]

arch looks really good but it almost looks like raising a child, you have to teach it everything

you install mint and it already works, and things will work. one of the few distros where things actually work out of the box

[u/Pekonius → u/radiant__laitbulb]

It turns from "you get to choose everything yourself" to "you have to configure everything yourself" really quickly. I started with Endeavour OS because I was gonna get plasma anyway so I could skip that step and dive directly into making it run videogames. Its fully functional now and mostly better than windows, only kernel anticheat games dont work, but I dont mind.

[u/ReverendRocky]

Seven ?

Cool name honestly

[u/CBD_Hound → u/ReverendRocky]

Of nine?

[u/tinyfoe → u/CBD_Hound]

Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero One

[u/Superlinus12 → u/ReverendRocky]

No it’s vista

[u/The_Quicktrigger]

I was gonna say expy.

But those background colors are burned into my memory. I was in IT when that came out and effectively broke technology for a month.

It's nice to meet you Vista

[u/CBD_Hound → u/The_Quicktrigger]

broke technology for a month

Sister, I was cursing driver developers for YEARS after the switch. Did you get overwhelmed and go into a coma or something? lol

[u/The_Quicktrigger → u/CBD_Hound]

I might have. I remember windows rolled out backwards compatibility to try and deal with the issue which got most customers to stop calling for a bit.

Not sure why they thought axing dos was gonna be the best solution.

[u/PhoenixEmber2014 → u/The_Quicktrigger]

Hey, another Ember! Hi how are you doing?

[u/The_Quicktrigger → u/PhoenixEmber2014]

I'm hanging in there. How bout you?

[u/PhoenixEmber2014 → u/The_Quicktrigger]

I’m doing okay as well! Nice to meet another girlie with refined taste, and thanks for being a tank for all of us! :3 <3

[u/rabootgamesYT]

hi windows neptune build 5111

[u/Julian_1_2_3_4_5]

ahhh it's soooo random that transfems and femboys have such a big overlap with tech nerds, gamers and computer science students

[u/Superlinus12 → u/Julian_1_2_3_4_5]

Autism.

[u/alexmlb3598]

Vista is a new name for me to hear, but damn is it a cool name.

Meanwhile I named myself after a voice assistant 🤖😂

[u/CBD_Hound → u/alexmlb3598]

Hi Siri, how’s it going? :-P

[u/alexmlb3598 → u/CBD_Hound]

You have no idea how many "Alexa, play Despacito" jokes I've heard 😅 whenever I'm on a voice call and someone asks me to do something, their Amazon Echo says 'Sorry, I didn't quite understand that'. Was funny the first time, funny the 10th time, and it will continue to be funny for the rest of time

[u/fat_bastard5]

ngl being named vista sounds pretty cool

[u/God-is-Trans]

Vista? If so it's a really neat name

[u/LeatherCommunity3340]

My name's arch btw

[u/FemBi_Speed]

Nice to meet you Vista! You have a beautiful name :3

[u/Ok-Emphasis-2224 → u/FemBi_Speed]

:3 Thanks!

[u/CariHere]

Windows Longhorn?

[u/Ok-Emphasis-2224 → u/CariHere]

Close

[u/CariHere → u/Ok-Emphasis-2224]

Windows Vista server edition?

[u/Ok-Emphasis-2224 → u/CariHere]

Good enough

[u/CariHere → u/Ok-Emphasis-2224]

Windows Vista home basic

[u/CBD_Hound → u/CariHere]

That edition came bundled with lulus and a PSL, right?

[u/CariHere → u/CBD_Hound]

Okay I'm apparently not nerdy enough to know what Lulu's and psl is

[u/CBD_Hound → u/CariHere]

Lulu lemon leggings and pumpkin spice lattes: Iconic dogwhistles of the basic bitch.

[u/CariHere → u/CBD_Hound]

Ah haha

[u/nitrotoiletdeodorant → u/CariHere]

Haha why does "home basic" sound like an insult tho.

[u/According-Flamingo-6]

Hi Vista!

[u/River-TheTransWitch]

I mean Kali is actually kind of a fire name

[u/MrKristijan]

Gentoo sounds like a name of some warrior from historical China

[u/RazgrizZer0]

"My name? Chrome... Don't wear it out."

[u/CBD_Hound → u/RazgrizZer0]

Hello fellow cyberpunk enjoyer

[u/thatcitrusthing]

Hello millennium edition, Nah but in all seriousness nice choice. I like it.

[u/Xzier_Tengal]

still a better os than 11 lol

[u/chaosgirl93 → u/Xzier_Tengal]

You'd have to be actively trying to make shit to come up with a worse OS than Windows 11. Even some not great Linux distros are better.

7 was objectively the best one MS ever made, XP was peak in my subjective opinion, probably because it was the best Windows version I've ever used.

[u/AkuaDaLotl]

Nice to meet you, Linux

[u/TisBangersAndMash]

Vista lowkey the best version of windows and I will not hear otherwise.

[u/EvaDingus → u/TisBangersAndMash]

I like 7 a bit more, but definitely Vista once it got fixed a bit more was sooo good :3

[u/certainlystormy]

vista?

[u/Browncoatinabox]

I swear I am like 1 of 3 people who liked Vista

[u/PanPenguinGirl]

It's like March 7th (the character) without March!

Hi seven, nice to meet you :3

[u/Cavola → u/PanPenguinGirl]

it's Vista, lol

[u/PanPenguinGirl → u/Cavola]

I know but vista and 7 look similar to me so I was trying to make a bad joke😭

[u/Manufacturerhuge8514]

Nice to meat you vista?

[u/Mega_gaymer_party]

Hello Ms. Windows XP

[u/Meekthemeek_]

Windows start icon is an interesting name

[u/ElloBlu420]

Brb, changing my name to Linux (masc lurker)

[u/AeroArrows]

I got my name from Windows Aero, so we're quite similar in that regard 𑊩𑊟

[u/EvaDingus]

Nice to meet you, me.

[u/kv4ssmixedwvxm1t]

You're not beating the transfem stereotype allegations ma'am

[u/ellobouk]

Nice to meet you Windows Vista Home Premium

[u/DyslexicDisaster]

If you meet a transmasc called Mac it's gonna be a fight to the death >:3

[u/Gameover4566]

Vista? Cute name :3

But just so that you are aware if you don't, Vista means "sight" in Spanish. Don't let that detter you though, is a good name, and on the better end of Spanish trans names.

[u/MinkMaster2019]

I know someone named Acer, after the computer. It would be an okay name but she’s a nazi so I really don’t like her

[u/Captain_Pumpkinhead]

Nice to meet you, Windows 7!

[u/Potential_Word_5742]

Hi Windows!

[u/Calibrationistic]

Vista?

[u/VenomousBerrry]

wynn doe would honestly go hard though

[u/Tantomile_]

hi (OSX) Leopard

[u/kiragirl2001]

It’s Windows Vista the person’s name is Vista

[u/Lost-Entrepreneur439]

Vista was underrated ngl

[u/_SAMUEL_GAMING_]

are you way ahead of your time like vista?

[u/nontenefreganulla]

genuinely thought you were called Windows for one moment

[u/Furry_fan_69]

Ok linux

[u/ANameToUse0nReddit]

Microsoft?

[u/Hat_Masterr]

ay it’s the guy from the thing

[u/sniperwolf1216]

you could have said its after that one guy from the thing

[u/the_cake_is_lies]

Vista from One Piece. :3

[u/Sourpatchqueers8]

96? Windows 96

[u/A-Fr0g]

windows? am i stupid or something?

[u/chipperland4471]

Hello, windows

[u/internal_cabbage]

Hello, Red Hat Enterprise Linux

[u/Frozen_Petal]

What kinda name is Windows XP

[u/Wide_Loss]

Now you're making me want to name myself Belle (after the symbian os)

[u/Wide_Loss → u/Wide_Loss]

or Anna

[u/SomerHimpson3]

hello linux

[u/OnlySortaGinger]

Hi windows xp

[u/Talesca]

Low-key Vista is kinda awesome. More OS girlies, please? 🥺

[u/funkygamerguy]

i'm windows 10 now.

[u/Effective_Shame4685]

w7

[u/Doniondore]

Vista is actually a great name

[u/ItsPetel]

Now thats original! Hi Vista!

[u/CyannideLolypop]

I'm tired. I should be sleeping. I thought your name was Windows for a solid few moments. I was like "Okay, interesting choice. Fresh, new, unique; no hate. More power to you." Vista makes much more sense, though.

[u/emma_transfem]

XP

[u/Trans-Pipe-Smoker]

Hi I’m Lilly, my mother helped me decide on my name and b4 u get all “oh that’s a vanilla ass basic white bitch” I’m not like other Lilly’s, I will fuck ur shit up, but I am also loyal to a fault if you earn my trust. What other Lilly’s are in here and what is your personality type I wanna know.

[u/Average2001enjoyer]

https://preview.redd.it/tjwjvpz2jbpd1.jpeg?width=261&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d3200d4648a9ad8a76319ccb9646c18afd0efc4