There is millions of softwares, pieces of softwares and such through time and platforms. They all need names. The need to be unique because it is hella confusing when 2 softwares are called the same thing. You cant install them both on the same computer, and you can be reading the wrong documentations. There is no central place where you can find out what every software ever is named.

Real issue is the prevelance of Anglo chauvinism.

comrade you are posting this on hexbear dot net

I agreed at the beginning, until I realized that I don't have to know the program names at all:

The search knows that I want a "file explorer" (/internet explorer). So far, this worked for everything I tried.

You don't know. You weren't in the trenches. You don't know half of the ridiculous and reddit-coded software names that have been and still live like ghosts in the lower levels of your OS. Ever heard of a recursive acronym? Words from obscure sci-fi original serieses scar the land of open-source software.

Wait till you find out that less is actually a successor to more

That is just the beauty of foss diversity.

Like humans either being referred to as a number or having proper names that have/had a background & a team that loves them. Linux is more transparent & no central thing (even like a distro) will sterilise it as much as a megacorp will their OS.

Serious answer is that each component is it's own project named for all kinds of reasons; often somekind of reference to a previous thing that they're trying to replace, sometimes to fit into an ecosystem or org's scheme, sometimes an initialism no-one thought to say out loud, sometimes it's a flippant name for quick throwaway program that then somehow becomes major infrastructure but it's too late to change it now.

Don't even get me started on when the main command for a package is something like "fastfuck" and you dont have it so you type sudo apt install fastfuck and its not called that in the fucking debian repo! So you have to start doing apt search package to find it. Until finally you realize the package is called "fuckfast" or something else slightly different.

well its all free stuff people coded in their spare time mostly so there's no glitzy marketing firm naming the whizbangdoodle something catchy

look at this comrade hating fun smdh

sometimes you need a little whimsy

I believe Dolphin is named Dolphin since it was the codename for the Gamecube.

There are also a bunch of really boring named programs out there. e.g. Gnome Text Editor.