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.

I’m more surprised by the bunions on her feet. Unfortunately, deformed feet like that are all too common, thanks to our collective obsession with pointed shoes.

I understood that reference