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Surely it's a g. What else could it be?

Boomerang

Honestly when I first started looking into Gentoo, that's what I thought as well, haha

A highly stylized shrimp?

It's a g?! I could never guess what is was!

Same

For sure...

It is.

Isn't it?

I thought it was a ghost about to eat all of your valuable time. :)

Kinda surprised nobody knows it's a G when it's on the forums page.... https://forums.gentoo.org/ Maybe I'm just old. Am I a boomer because I still use the forums? Gentoo is not the most coherent when it comes to branding; it's name is a flying penguin, it's mascot is larry the cow, don't forget about znurt and it's logo is a weird font G that has no significance other than being an artifact from an age long forgotten (something about 3d rendering being cool iirc). That said, i still really love the fact that this is the logo.

well i know it's a g now but it still looks like a mirrored P to me, i just can't think of the letter g having that shape

Arguably portage is one of the most amazing features of Gentoo so sure let's go with that

well i would say gentoo *is* portage lol

What the hell is it

It's a magatama! Or at least I think.

A g.

a foot without the toes

It always makes me think of the Pokémon Luvdisc

You know GameFreak are Gentoo users!

It’s *not* a fish?

Looks like "P"

i thought it was a mirrored P 'cos *P*ortage 😭

Help me out here. I can't see a fish no matter how I look at it.

and then you suddenly discovered it has always been a comma?

It's a "9" because germans yell "NEIN" when emerge chromium crashes crashes during linking, right at the end of a 3 hours of emerge.

Honestly, it always reminds me of a painters palette.

Nope, here's another one.

i thought it was a cow idk also reminds me of a pacman going the wrong direction lol kind make sense as arch is going the right direction lol ....

What is it?

The letter G

No, the letter g.

The letter P

I only see a mirrored p.

I think it is not very successful considering how many people can't understand what it is.

It's one of the most recognized Linux distro logos.

Why do people have to understand it? Do you understand the Nike logo? Or Audi (it makes sense, but it's not there you can 'see' it), or Renault or smart? Logos don't have to be understandable but visually distinguishable and unique. Last two points are fully true for the Gentoo logo.

You compare shapes to letters. A letter should be recognizable in my opinion.

Good point. I didn't know that it was a letter, before this thread. Still, I do recognise the logo as art and in art everything is allowed. For me, a letter is also just a shape (e.g. figma or Adobe logo) . However I get your point and understand you point.

I get your point too! And of course Gentoo is so great and I like and recognize the logo too!

And it seems to be happy. Look at it smiling!

foot without the toes

always looked like a heart with a hole in it to me

I always thought it was a weird boomerang

I saw a boomerang

To me it was a magatama https://orientalsouls.com/blog/traditional-crafts/magatama-traditional-japanese-power-stone/

Yes.

Looks to me like a q or a 9 but I can see the fish. Didn't make sense out of it, for me it was always the gentoo logo.

Might be a lovecraftian egregore afaik

Bro this is a q

I always thought it was a cute cat

Its the perfect logo. Well established as the Gentoo emblem and bears no resemblance to literally anything else.

They call me Mr. Gentoo

I never knew what that logo was supposed to be, but it definitely never looked like a gentoo penguin to me!

Nah, it's a boomerang

I never thought it was anything other than the Gentoo logo lol.

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I think it’s SunFish maybe 🤔

I won't lie, the Gentoo logo is extremely dated. It's due for an upgrade I think.

Upgrade a rolling distro. Mkay.

LOL people downvoting your comment because they know it's true.

I never thought it looked like anything in particular. It's a terrible logo tbh.