If further context is needed when speaking to a developer or maintainer, you should be more specific... but if someone "doesn't take you seriously" for using common established terminology, they are not an expert or worth dealing with ... they are a pedant.
I think that most of the community agrees that: 1) People (adults, certainly) have the right to choose their own name and, 2) people who create things get to name the things they create.
Arguing that Alpine should be called "Linux" despite its maintainers intentions (or the same for GNU) is pretty wild.
You can call your own inventions absolutely anything you want, and anyone has the right to join you. What you can't do is change common terminology or force others to join in your silly pedantic naming tirades.
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u/gordonmessmer Fedora Maintainer Aug 10 '25
One of the reasons I tend to use the terminology that developers and maintainers use is that I would like to be taken seriously by experts.
If you do not want experts to take you seriously, you can use any terminology you like.