I’m sure it’s nothing personal. For instance, I’ve been using Sync for reddit for over 10 years as my primary method of accessing reddit, so I know this is going to make me a lot more comfortable using Lemmy.

It’s definitely pronounced without the g sound.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gnu

Alma and Rocky depend on the publicly available source code for RHEL. Red Hat decided to close source except to paying customers. https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/red_hat_centos_move/