But yeah, the logo is not a vanilla flower, but it’s not so drastically different I’d fault them for it.
Edit 1: One thing to note is that they named their OS “Vanilla” because of the common description of a software product, meaning unaltered from its original release. They named it this because they don’t change any settings or add any extensions to the Gnome desktop. They provide a “vanilla” installation. I don’t actually know if they were trying to do a vanilla flower as their logo, or just a flower.
Edit 2: They definitely were.
The name “Vanilla OS” evokes the purity and simplicity we aim to offer our users, while the vanilla flower, featured in our logo, represents the sweetness and elegance of our operating system.
They named their OS after a genus of plants, not a single species. And there are some species that have wide, colored petals like that.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vanilla_aphylla_from_Southern_Thailand.jpg
But yeah, the logo is not a vanilla flower, but it’s not so drastically different I’d fault them for it.
Edit 1: One thing to note is that they named their OS “Vanilla” because of the common description of a software product, meaning unaltered from its original release. They named it this because they don’t change any settings or add any extensions to the Gnome desktop. They provide a “vanilla” installation. I don’t actually know if they were trying to do a vanilla flower as their logo, or just a flower.
Edit 2: They definitely were.
(From their FAQ page.)