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the_kLeZ | on: Dux: Free, open-source Wayland desktop shell with file manager and theming
None of them seems to be aware that "Dux" is not really a good word, because it's the name used by Benito Mussolini for himself. It reads the same as calling this WM "Fuhrer". Not a good name choice. Average look, from the software part, not mature enough compared to other setups such as hyprland or sway.
SyneRyder | parent | next
Dux: "The top (male or female) academic student in a school, or in a year of school; the top student in a specified academic discipline."

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dux

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/dux

Balinares | root | parent
And Führer means "driver", and the fact it means driver is irrelevant to why it would be a terrible name choice for a piece of software unless you're trying to appeal to a very specific audience. I'm not sure what point you think you're making.
borlox | root | parent
both "driver" and "leader"
dxdm | parent | next
I think Mussolini commonly went by "il duce", while dux seems to be going back all the way to ancient Roman times, where it's a noun related to the verb for "to lead", meaning leader, essentially. It and its root gave us "duke", "duct", "produce", among many others.
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