It was a tongue-in-cheek response. The English alphabet doesn’t convey pronunciation.

If gif is pronounced gif, then gnome should be pronounced gnome

And then they encounter the horrible mess that is the Hyprland discord and run back to KDE or GNOME. There’s hope with Cosmic yet.

“Settlers” is such mild terminology. We should be calling them “colonizers”. Tbf though, the Pilgrims and other early American settlers were no pacifists. That’s just the image public education and the media has painted for us.