DeMaio: Insights from the openSUSE Logo Contest

As a Debian contributor, maybe I recognise other swirls as "yes it's a swirl, but not *our* swirl" more immediately than someone with more distance from the project... but I do see your point.

(Meanwhile, the one with an infinity immediately made me think Fedora, which seems equally unfortunate.)

I can't say I understand what was wrong with the chameleon. I think most of the meaning we get from any non-awful logo is the reputation we've associated with it over time, more than anything intrinsic to the logo itself.