I think enumerating the points is both valid, and necessary, when there are too many who have neither the broader awareness, nor the patience to do their own research, to fully understand what is implied by the terse form which you recommend. 
This way, even the "unaware" can be elevated to fully "participate" by correctly understanding what is being referenced.
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Ahh this comment both made me laugh and reminded me how old I am to still think of "internet explorer" when I see "windows + explorer" in same text
Back then it actually made more sense and was actually used, still remember those windows xp days with nostalgia
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Ah yes, those days. Playing Duke Nukem 3D on MS-DOS 3.3 on a 80386 with a whopping 4 MB RAM, And he was there "to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I'm all out of gum"
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Exactly that only for my case it was more Heroes of Might and Magic 3 but yeah old games still do well via lutris/wine
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I'm as old school as you are. Duke Nukem as an 8-bit game was more fun than the glossy, pseudo-3D games that required a hefty helping of hardware in order to play them. I think my all-time favorite was Leisure Suit Larry: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards!
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OMG yes! I remember. I played that for a while on a PC with CGA card 
It has been decades since someone mentioned Leisure Suit Larry
The day I got a VGA card I played pinball fantasies on my i286 with 2 MB RAM
I was completely stunned that it could play the music and soundeffects by sending it as a pulse width modulated signal to the PC speaker , so much more than just beep beep
(I didn't had a souncard back then)
I still have pinball fantasies, it runs flawlessly in dosbox
Also Duke 3D ( eduke32 linux engine )
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I don't think apps should be renamed.
And although I've only ever installed UM with a locale of English-US (my language), I presumed that if a different locale is specified during installation, that the tooltips are adjusted to a locale-specific translation. That way, if a user does not speak the language from which the app name arises (or if the developer dubbed the application with an esoteric name), then the tooltip displayed by hovering the pointer over the icon should give the user a comprehensible capsule description of the app.
Is that not the way it works, or is my presumption just a utopian fantasy (highly probable)?
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Yes indeed it works that way also for British english version which I use - if you leave a mouse over an app for a second or two then the information box shows up describing what the app is for without the need to open the app
I also agree with the choice for developer of the app to name it whatever they deep fits since it should fall under the artistic freedom of the creator should it not?
I mean some apps do have interesting names like "Bottles" which for example when hovered over with mouse states "Run windows software" - and people understand what the app is for if one seems to not know by the title all apps have explanations so I see it as a valid argument to keep names the way they are
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I only rename the app on the desktop icon so they know it's purpose. If you rename the app on the menu it will no longer be found for things like default web browser or text editor. I also leave the name in the desktop icon like Synaptic package manager so they know what it does. I only do that to help friends and relatives I install for to familiarize themselves with the new applications. I am not saying everyone should do that. The desktop application opens on the command in the properties of the icon, not on the name.
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Retro games are still a big thing in streaming. Including some that play on originl hardware.
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Or retro games that play on hardware that was definitely not designed to do that 
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That's too rich and funny! Credit given for creativity. Not that it's useful, but then a lot of the hacking (as it's originally defined) is just to see "if it can be done."
I'm old enough to remember being eaten by a grue. Many times.
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Are you telling me that you were playing zork on a PDP11 ? 
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Close. As I recall it was either an Apple //e or an original 128k Macintosh.
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Sorry, can not resist cutting in your dialogue...
Yes, sp21 (aka pacman), martian wars (aka space invaders) and xonix, etc.
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It's the original game platform, don't you know ?
I remember trying to elbow my classmates in university! We were all vying for keyboard time to play "Moon Lander"!
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Oh, I always thought that the PDP-1 was the original game platform. It did ran Spacewar as far as I can remember 
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While we're waxing nostalgic here, let's not forget that Paul Allen wrote his MITS Altair 8800 emulator on a PDP-10. That emulator was what enabled Bill Gates to write his BASIC interpreter and set in motion the wheels that made him one of the richest men in the world.
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I love that this is the second time this year that a thread has just become about nostalgia for computers from the 18th century or whatever 
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Wait. We haven't even started on Charles Babbage's Difference Engine, which he presented in 1822!
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